The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
—Albert Einstein, 1936
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There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCThe decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983There are many civil questions that arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled.
—William Howard Taft, 1921Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
—H.L. Mencken, 1919Enemies are so stimulating.
—Katharine Hepburn, 1969Unexemplary words and unfounded doctrines are avoided by the noble person. Why utter them?
—Dong Zhongshu, c. 120 BCThere is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
—Paul Valéry, 1943There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
—John Locke, 1689But look, our seas are what we make of them, full of fish or not, opaque or transparent, red or black, high or smooth, narrow or bankless—and we are ourselves sea, sand, coral, seaweed, beaches, tides, swimmers, children, waves.
—Hélène Cixous, 1976A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
—Jane Austen, 1814