The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985
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A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn’t go.
—Alexander Woollcott, c. 1935Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.
—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947When the abbot throws the dice, the whole convent will play.
—Martin Luther, c. 1540Friendship’s a noble name, ’tis love refined.
—Susanna Centlivre, 1703The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
—Basho, c. 1690Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.
—Epictetus, c. 100There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCHad Cleopatra’s nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have changed.
—Blaise Pascal, 1658Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
—H.L. Mencken, 1919To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891He who laugheth too much, hath the nature of a fool; he that laugheth not at all, hath the nature of an old cat.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732