Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857
Archive
Quotes
Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
—P.D. James, 1992See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
—Robert Burton, c. 1620I am not Athenian or Greek but a citizen of the world.
—Socrates, c. 420 BCLaw makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.
—William Empson, 1928Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings.
—Anna Quindlen, 2012How sad a sight is human happiness to those whose thoughts can pierce beyond an hour!
—Edward Young, 1741Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
—W.H. Auden, 1957One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851No human life, not even the life of a hermit, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.
—Hannah Arendt, 1958All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
—John Ruskin, 1856