Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, c. 1940
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I drink for the thirst to come.
—François Rabelais, 1535The nature of God is a circle, of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
—Empedocles, c. 450 BCWe do not suffer by accident.
—Jane Austen, 1813All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward VIII, 1957In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
—Colette, 1944Spit not in the well; you may have to drink its water.
—French proverbThese landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
—Charles M. Allen, 1967In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1830Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
—Ulysses S. Grant, 1877Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906