A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert, 1640
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Anyone who’s never watched somebody die is suffering from a pretty bad case of virginity.
—John Osborne, 1956Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.
—George Gershwin, 1933Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell!
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1843Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
—Woody Allen, 1979The United States has virtually set up an empire on impounded and redistributed water.
—Charles P. Berkey, 1946Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
—Robert A. Heinlein, 1984Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
—Jane Austen, 1815The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
—Joseph Conrad, 1899Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
—William James, 1902I wants to make your flesh creep.
—Charles Dickens, 1837