Hang work! I wish that all the year were holiday; I am sure that Indolence—indefeasible Indolence—is the true state of man.
—Charles Lamb, 1805
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Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860There 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, 2008All law is of necessity defective in the beginning.
—Han Yu, c. 800What is outside my mind means nothing to it.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170The boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.
—Plato, c. 348 BCThere is a time to battle against nature, and a time to obey her. True wisdom lies in making the right choice.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1979Can you take your country with you on the soles of your shoes?
—Georg Büchner, 1835Whole nations have melted away like balls of snow before the sun.
—Dragging Canoe, 1775What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862Happiness is a warm puppy.
—Charles Schulz, 1971If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay in solid cash—the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
—Aldous Huxley, 1926