God walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582
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O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.
—Horace, c. 8 BCDisease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
—Thomas Mann, 1924He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
—Molière, 1666Conjecturing a Climate
Of unsuspended Suns –
Adds poignancy to Winter
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
—George Washington, 1796Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.
—Erich Fromm, 1947Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903The sea is mother-death, and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
—Anne Sexton, 1971Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
—Barbara Walters, 1975The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
—Hermann Hesse, 1950Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.
—James Joyce, 1922