All that we know is nothing can be known.
—Lord Byron, 1812
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Men are merriest when they are from home.
—William Shakespeare, 1599We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
—Anna Sewell, 1877What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717I do love cricket—it’s so very English.
—Sarah Bernhardt, c. 1908I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.
—Albert Camus, 1957The god of music dwelleth out of doors.
—Edith M. Thomas, 1887Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, c. 1940Alas! We are ridiculous animals.
—Horace Walpole, 1777Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture, to us, and a mirror.
—Alain de Lille, c. 1200We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1928My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.
—John Quincy Adams, 1844