One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958
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We seek with our human hands to create a second nature in the natural world.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCThe one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
—Salvador Dalí, 1953Disease is not of the body but of the place.
—Latin proverbA Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!
—Philip Roth, 1969All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BC“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
—George Eliot, 1866On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.
—Edward Bellamy, 1888Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BCThe planet keeps to the astronomer’s timetable, but the wind still bloweth almost where it listeth.
—John Henry Poynting, 1899Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals—except the weasel.
—The Simpsons, 1993Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850