I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae West
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Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.
—Anthony Doerr, 2006The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty, and death of public opinion.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1902One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.
—Iris Murdoch, 1978Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
—Charles Kuralt, c. 1980The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry to equanimity, receptivity, and peace is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal center of energy.
—William James, 1902As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
—Chinua Achebe, 1958The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, / And drinks, and gapes for drink again.
—Abraham Cowley, 1656Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.
—Horace, c. 20 BCThe passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
—Marianne Moore, 1935Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
—Camille Paglia, 1992They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.
—Martin Luther, c. 1530Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
—E.M. Forster, 1951