In life our absent friend is far away: / But death may bring our friend exceeding near.
—Christina Rossetti, 1881
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
—Mario Cuomo, 1985The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890Abstainer, n. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and justly, and impossible to live wisely, well, and justly without living pleasurably.
—Epicurus, c. 300 BCThe oldest voice in the world is the wind.
—Donald Culross Peattie, 1950For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813Happiness is a warm puppy.
—Charles Schulz, 1971One’s body, hair, and skin are a gift from one’s parents—do not dare to allow them to be harmed.
—Classic of Filial Piety, c. 200 BCThe greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1971Oil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.
—Peter Hitchcock, 2010If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.
—David Sedaris, 2004