There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh.
—Catullus, c. 60 BC
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It is remarkable that only small birds properly sing.
—Charles Darwin, 1871The world is wearied of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1870There is no happiness like that of a young couple in a little house they have built themselves in a place of beauty and solitude.
—Annie Proulx, 2008What is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCHappiness (as the mathematicians might say) lies on a curve, and we approach it only by asymptote.
—Christopher Morley, 1919It is better to live unknown to the law.
—Irish proverbOne doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
—André Gide, 1926Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
—Mark Twain, 1893When the abbot throws the dice, the whole convent will play.
—Martin Luther, c. 1540Revolutions are always verbose.
—Leon Trotsky, 1933Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942The severity of a teacher is better than the love of a father.
—Saadi, 1258