Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
—William Morris, 1882
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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
—Jean Genet, 1949Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1911“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.
—Herodotus, c. 440 BCThe waters are nature’s storehouse, in which she locks up her wonders.
—Izaak Walton, 1653He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCThe Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the Church.
—Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1510All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.
—Emily Dickinson, 1876Happiness is not something you can catch and lock up in a vault like wealth. Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1939Who sleepeth with dogs shall rise with fleas.
—John Florio, 1578The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
—Salvador Dalí, 1953