I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
—Lorraine Hansberry, 1965
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A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851What delight can there be, and not rather displeasure, in hearing the barking and howling of dogs? Or what greater pleasure is there to be felt when a dog followeth a hare than when a dog followeth a dog?
—Thomas More, 1516I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992I quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BCOne’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
—George Santayana, c. 1914Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
—Isadora Duncan, c. 1902Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature. Laughter hath only a scornful tickling.
—Philip Sidney, 1582The fear of war is worse than war itself.
—Seneca, c. 50No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
—Bertrand Russell, 1961I 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. 1798Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837Do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2350 BC