All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.
—Jack London, 1912
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On the loftiest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own rump.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580Fire destroys that which feeds it.
—Simone Weil, c. 1940I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.
—Jane Austen, c. 1798Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1886It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847Man is a tool-using animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1836There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
—Samuel Johnson, c. 1770Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is better, only the god knows.
—Socrates, 399 BCIt is very foolish to attack one’s enemy openly if one can injure him in secret.
—Giambattista Giraldi, 1543I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889