Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
—Anatole France, 1881
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I imagined it was more difficult to die.
—Louis XIV, 1715To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma.
—Gretel Ehrlich, 1994Men are what their mothers made them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.
—Henry Clay, 1842Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
—Aldous Huxley, 1929The Mediterranean has the colors of a mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet—you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing light has taken on a tinge of pink or gray.
—Vincent van Gogh, 1888Men are generally more pleased with a widespread than with a great reputation.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 110Dance tunes are always right.
—Dylan Thomas, 1936Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
—Charles Kuralt, c. 1980Bright youth passes as quickly as thought.
—Theognis, c. 550 BCDiseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.
—David Riesman, 1937Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
—Henry Kissinger, 1972