Don’t ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.
—Colette, 1944
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Just as language no longer has anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.
—Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903I have often been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
—Thucydides, c. 404 BCYou may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
—Leon TrotskyYour body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797Everything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.
—Joseph Joubert, 1791It is hard when nature does not respect your intentions, and she never does exactly respect them.
—Wendell Berry, 1985I have often said that if I wish to name-drop, I have only to list my ex-friends.
—Norman Podhoretz, 1999No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BCFar and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1903The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am.
—Alice James, 1889