If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.
—Charles Dickens, 1865
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Some nights are like honey—and some like wine—and some like wormwood.
—L.M. Montgomery, 1927The true mission of American sports is to prepare young men for war.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower, c. 1952Avoid 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 BCTime’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
—James Joyce, 1922What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971Best is water.
—Pindar, 476 BCAs bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character.
—David Sedaris, 1997Whenever there is excess, an ax remedies it.
—Sumerian proverbThere is no happiness like that of a young couple in a little house they have built themselves in a place of beauty and solitude.
—Annie Proulx, 2008Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
—Anatole France, 1881In dealing with the dead, if we treat them as if they were entirely dead, that would show a want of affection and should not be done; or, if we treat them as if they were entirely alive, that would show a want of wisdom and should not be done.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCMan has here two and a half minutes—one to smile, one to sigh, and half a one to love; for in the midst of this minute he dies.
—Jean Paul, 1795