The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580
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It’s easy to be independent when you’ve got money. But to be independent when you haven’t got a thing—that’s the Lord’s test.
—Mahalia Jackson, 1966Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943It’s the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
—Helen MacInnes, 1963I never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953The young man must store up, the old man must use.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 63The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.
—Albert Einstein, 1930Memories are hunting horns
whose noise dies away in the wind.
If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.
—David Sedaris, 2004Conjecturing a Climate
Of unsuspended Suns –
Adds poignancy to Winter
Bright youth passes as quickly as thought.
—Theognis, c. 550 BCNever make a defense or apology before you be accused.
—Charles I, 1636