To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891
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Happiness is a warm puppy.
—Charles Schulz, 1971For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
—Charles Baudelaire, c. 1865War is fear cloaked in courage.
—William Westmoreland, 1966The sea is mother-death, and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
—Anne Sexton, 1971Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1732The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1776I proclaim night more truthful than the day.
—Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1956Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.
—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BCDo not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
—Marcel Marceau, 1958