Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
—W.H. Auden, 1957
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I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886Some nights are like honey—and some like wine—and some like wormwood.
—L.M. Montgomery, 1927Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.
—Solomon ibn Gabirol, 1050Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938Life’s no resting, but a moving.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919He that commands the sea is at great liberty and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
—Joseph Stalin, 1934There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
—Anthony Trollope, 1862Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that.
—Mao Zedong, 1936Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.
—Louis Brandeis, 1928Years are nothing to me—they should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or to consider them? In the world of wild nature, time is measured by seasons only—the bird does not know how old it is—the rose tree does not count its birthdays!
—Marie Corelli, 1911