An American will build a house in which to pass his old age and sell it before the roof is on.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840
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The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851The future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856On the loftiest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own rump.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580What man was ever content with one crime?
—Juvenal, c. 125The brightest light burns the quickest.
—Olive Beatrice Muir, 1900The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCWe must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion if we want to be happy.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.
—Solomon ibn Gabirol, 1050Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.
—The Upanishads, c. 800 BCI know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa Gabor