I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.
—Mitch Hedberg, 1999
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Friendships begin with liking or gratitude—roots that can be pulled up.
—George Eliot, 1876Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
—William James, 1902Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
—André Gide, 1897A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922A passion for horses, players, and gladiators seems to be the epidemic folly of the times. The child receives it in his mother’s womb; he brings it with him into the world, and in a mind so possessed, what room for science, or any generous purpose?
—Tacitus, c. 100You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars.
—Thomas Traherne, c. 1670Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603Speak without regard for the consequences, and it is too late for silence when disaster strikes.
—Huan Kuan, 81 BCAll things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
—Plotinus, c. 255Exile lacks the grandeur, the majesty, of expatriation.
—Bharati Mukherjee, 1999I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
—Xenocrates, c. 350 BCThe appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
—Myrtle Reed, 1910