I think that to get under the surface and really appreciate the beauty of any country, one has to go there poor.
—Grace Moore, 1944
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Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
—Gertrude Stein, 1914The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
—Virginia Woolf, 1921Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
—Samuel Johnson, 1771Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.
—Edmund Burke, 1790Too often, where we need water we find guns.
—Ban Ki-moon, 2008What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence, the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?
—Mary Renault, 1956The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
—Henry Fielding, 1730Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
—Alexander Pope, 1709Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.
—Flannery O’Connor, 1964All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert, 1640The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983