Quotes

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

—John Lennon, 1970

I have been a stranger here in my own land all my life.

—Sophocles, c. 441 BC

Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.

—Terence, 161 BC

If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.

—Anton Chekhov, 1904

However harmless a thing is, if the law forbids it, most people will think it wrong.

—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

—Walt Whitman, 1855

I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.

—Gregory VII, c. 1085

It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

—Charlotte Brontë, 1847

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

—E.B. White, 1977

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.

—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946

Style is the image of character.

—Edward Gibbon, c. 1789

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

—D.H. Lawrence, 1908

The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.

—Édouard Manet, c. 1860

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