Never trust her at any time when the calm sea shows her false alluring smile.
—Lucretius, c. 60 BC
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The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
—Salvador Dalí, 1953Men are what their mothers made them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
—Anaïs Nin, 1939When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
—St. Jerome, 395Revolutions are always verbose.
—Leon Trotsky, 1933He may be a patriot for Austria, but the question is whether he is a patriot for me.
—Emperor Francis Joseph, c. 1850Memory is more indelible than ink.
—Anita Loos, 1974Memory is the only
afterlife I can understand.
We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
—Ida M. Tarbell, 1904Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
—E.M. Forster, 1951Childhood has no forebodings—but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
—George Eliot, 1860“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
—George Eliot, 1866