Some nights are like honey—and some like wine—and some like wormwood.
—L.M. Montgomery, 1927
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Play, wherein persons of condition, especially ladies, waste so much of their time, is a plain instance to me that men cannot be perfectly idle; they must be doing something, for how else could they sit so many hours toiling at that which generally gives more vexation than delight to people whilst they are actually engaged in it?
—John Locke, 1693To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbCelibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920In life our absent friend is far away: / But death may bring our friend exceeding near.
—Christina Rossetti, 1881I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
—Roald Dahl, 1984What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910Grown 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. 1940What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
—Voltaire, 1723If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991Uprootedness is by far the most dangerous malady to which human societies are exposed, for it is a self-propagating one.
—Simone Weil, 1943Without virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.
—Confucius, c. 350 BC