Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.
—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841
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The smell of rain is rich with life.
—Estela Portillo Trambley, 1975I had rather be in a state of misery and envied for my supposed happiness than in a state of happiness and pitied for my supposed misery.
—Elizabeth Inchbald, 1793If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better I should not have come.
—Raymond Chandler, 1945One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for a while their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.
—Maya Angelou, 2011What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905Even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.
—Learned Hand, 1932The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honor or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
—Tecumseh, 1810Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
—Camille Paglia, 1992Bright youth passes as quickly as thought.
—Theognis, c. 550 BCWe’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1928