When the root lives on, the new leaves come back.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BC
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A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
—George Eliot, 1876War is sweet to those who don’t know it.
—Erasmus, 1508Man and animals are really the conduit of food, the sepulcher of animals, and resting place of the dead, one causing the death of the other, making themselves the covering for the corruption of other dead bodies.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500The right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing else than the right to disillusionment phrased in another way.
—Aldous Huxley, 1956A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
—Arthur Miller, 1961To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.
—Albert Camus, 1951Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
—Anatole France, 1881What touches all shall be approved by all.
—Edward I, 1295Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, c. 1940If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will—whatever we may think.
—Lawrence Durrell, 1957