If a king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.
—Mencius, c. 330 BC
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If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.
—Phyllis Rose, 1991It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
—The BibleAll law is of necessity defective in the beginning.
—Han Yu, c. 800Peace is a natural effect of trade.
—Montesquieu, 1748If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981Language is the house of being. In its home human beings dwell. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.
—Martin Heidegger, 1949Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
—James Baldwin, 1961And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855Sick, irritated, and the prey to a thousand discomforts, I go on with my labor like a true workingman, who, with sleeves rolled up, in the sweat of his brow, beats away at his anvil, not caring whether it rains or blows, hails or thunders.
—Gustave Flaubert, 1845Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1480Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885