Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924
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He who would be happy should stay at home.
—Greek proverbSome are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.
A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions, as it were, by the way, in the course of their everyday life.
—Elizabeth Charles, 1862Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
—Laurie Colwin, 1978My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1918Enemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.
—Elsa Maxwell, 1955Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history.
—Fernand Braudel, 1979Yes to a market economy, no to a market society.
—Lionel Jospin, 1998Till taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.
—Lord Byron, 1819Childhood has no forebodings—but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
—George Eliot, 1860