A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822
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The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
—Albert Einstein, 1936Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1908For most of us, nighttime dreaming brings us closer to our identities and our power than any activity in the waking world.
—Walter Mosley, 2000A friend in power is a friend lost.
—Henry Adams, 1905If both what is before and what is after are in this same “now,” things which happened ten thousand years ago would be simultaneous with what has happened today, and nothing would be before or after anything else.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCWe’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1928We wish away whole years, and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it.
—Joseph Addison, 1711Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962Does anybody really want to attend to cities other than to flee, fleece, privatize, butcher, or decimate them?
—Jane Holtz Kay, 1992What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905That which is evil is soon learned.
—John Ray, 1670Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750