Is all our fire of shipwreck wood?
—Robert Browning, 1862
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
—Jane Austen, 1814Big head, little wit.
—French proverbEven though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.
—Learned Hand, 1932Life is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817Think rich. Look poor.
—Andy Warhol, 1975Whatsoever is, is in God.
—Benedict de Spinoza, 1677Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.
—Immanuel Kant, 1781The righteous know the needs of their animals, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 500 BCIf anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BCAlcohol is the monarch of liquids.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverb