Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
—John Berger, 1987
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Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
—William Morris, 1882Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
—George Washington, 1783What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905The hatred of relatives is the bitterest.
—Tacitus, 117In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1830One religion is as true as another.
—Robert Burton, 1621Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857The civilized man has built a coach but has lost the use of his feet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841Speak without regard for the consequences, and it is too late for silence when disaster strikes.
—Huan Kuan, 81 BCSome memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
—Willa Cather, 1918Whenever there is excess, an ax remedies it.
—Sumerian proverb