I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962
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Punishment is a sort of medicine.
—Aristotle, c. 340 BCA self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
—Christina Stead, 1938Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 30 BCMedication alone is not to be relied on. In one half the cases medicine is not needed, or is worse than useless. Obedience to spiritual and physical laws—hygiene of the body and hygiene of the spirit—is the surest warrant for health and happiness.
—Harriot K. Hunt, 1856One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.
—Phyllis Rose, 1991Why is a ship under sail more poetical than a hog in a high wind? The hog is all nature, the ship is all art.
—Lord Byron, 1821Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924Avoid the talk of men. For talk is mischievous, light, and easily raised, but hard to bear and difficult to be rid of. Talk never wholly dies away when many people voice her: even talk is in some ways divine.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCWhat are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64The bathing was so delightful this morning, and Molly so pressing with me to enjoy myself, that I believe I stayed in rather too long, as since the middle of the day I have felt unreasonably tired. I shall be more careful another time, and shall not bathe tomorrow as I had before intended.
—Jane Austen, 1804Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
—George Santayana, c. 1914