The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986
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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
—Joseph Conrad, 1899Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.
—Simone Weil, 1947Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
—W.H. Auden, 1957What harm is there in getting knowledge and learning, were it from a sot, a pot, a fool, a winter mitten, or an old slipper?
—François Rabelais, 1533The waters are nature’s storehouse, in which she locks up her wonders.
—Izaak Walton, 1653It is permitted to learn even from an enemy.
—Ovid, c. 8Most authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.
—Davy Crockett, 1834The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Reality is always the foe of famous names.
—Petrarch, 1337Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
—Kin HubbardIn every man is a wild beast; most of them don’t know how to hold it back, and the majority give it full rein when they are not restrained by terror of law.
—Frederick the Great, 1759Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BC