Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions, as it were, by the way, in the course of their everyday life.
—Elizabeth Charles, 1862
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I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!
—Willa Cather, 1915Life is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817Men, my dear, are very queer animals—a mixture of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel malice.
—T. H. Huxley, 1895How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort in a hospital.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1857Anyone who doesn’t know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1821Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.
—Thomas Browne, 1658If I played in New York, they’d name a candy bar after me.
—Reggie Jackson, 1976The elephant, although a gross beast, is yet the most decent and most sensible of any other upon earth. Although he never changes his female, and hath so tender a love for her whom he hath chosen, yet he never couples with her but at the end of every three years, and then only for the space of five days.
—St. Francis de Sales, 1609If there is a technological advance without a social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
—Michael Harrington, 1962When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1657The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
—Donald Barthelme, 1964