Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
—Gertrude Stein, 1914
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I doubt that we have any right to pity the dead for their own sakes.
—Lord Byron, 1817Attacks on me will do no harm, and silent contempt is the best answer to them.
—James Monroe, 1808For, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
—Herman Melville, 1851Wherever commerce prevails there will be an inequality of wealth, and wherever the latter does a simplicity of manners must decline.
—James Madison, 1783It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.
—Mary Baker Eddy, 1908To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872Everybody says it; and what everybody says must be true.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1844Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.
—Homer, c. 750 BCDon’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957There be beasts that, at a year old, observe more, and pursue that which is for their good more prudently, than a child can do at ten.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1651There is a time to battle against nature, and a time to obey her. True wisdom lies in making the right choice.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1979