At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
—Rose Macaulay, 1925
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A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1852People react to fear, not love—they don’t teach that in Sunday school, but it’s true.
—Richard Nixon, 1975Everybody says it; and what everybody says must be true.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1844I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
—Roald Dahl, 1984I had rather be in a state of misery and envied for my supposed happiness than in a state of happiness and pitied for my supposed misery.
—Elizabeth Inchbald, 1793Enemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.
—Elsa Maxwell, 1955Wit enables us to act rudely with impunity.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCIn its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
—Michel Foucault, 1975There 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, 1651Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925