One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1977
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Where shall I, of wandering weary, find my resting place at last?
—Heinrich Heine, 1827Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
—George Washington, 1783Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1921Words pay no debts.
—William Shakespeare, 1601We get a deal o’ useless things about us, only because we’ve got the money to spend.
—George Eliot, 1860We die of comfort and by conflict live.
—May Sarton, 1953Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
—Willa Cather, 1918It would be impossible to live for a year without disaster unless one practiced character-reading.
—Virginia Woolf, 1924Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958Does anybody really want to attend to cities other than to flee, fleece, privatize, butcher, or decimate them?
—Jane Holtz Kay, 1992Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1886