A friend who is very near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
—George Ade, 1902
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One great reason why many children abandon themselves wholly to silly sports and trifle away all their time insipidly is because they have found their curiosity baulked and their inquiries neglected.
—John Locke, 1693Where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
—George Santayana, c. 1905There is a demon who puts wings on certain tales and launches them like eagles out into space.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1846He who commands the sea has command of everything.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1965Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.
—William Blake, c. 1790Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.
—Immanuel Kant, 1784As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
—Charles Darwin, 1859We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850Wants keep pace with wealth always.
—Timothy Titcomb, 1859I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
—Lord Byron, 1813Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
—Jean Rostand, 1939