There is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943
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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1847I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.
—Sarah Williams, 1868Language is the house of being. In its home human beings dwell. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.
—Martin Heidegger, 1949One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.
—Iris Murdoch, 1978The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes “sightseeing.”
—Daniel Boorstin, 1961Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?
—Alfred Hitchcock, 1962We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
—Anna Sewell, 1877Medication alone is not to be relied on. In one half the cases medicine is not needed, or is worse than useless. Obedience to spiritual and physical laws—hygiene of the body and hygiene of the spirit—is the surest warrant for health and happiness.
—Harriot K. Hunt, 1856Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that.
—Mao Zedong, 1936War is sweet to those who don’t know it.
—Erasmus, 1508According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794It is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.
—James Hutton, 1795