The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
—Virginia Woolf, 1921
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The law is not the same at morning and at night.
—George Herbert, c. 1633There is no small pleasure in sweet water.
—Ovid, c. 10Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1908Scandal begins where the police leave off.
—Karl Kraus, 1909I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.
—Edith Konecky, 1976Animals are good to think with.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962It seems to me that we all look at nature too much and live with her too little.
—Oscar Wilde, 1897At the start there’s always energy.
—Suzan-Lori Parks, 2006The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905Drive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back.
—Horace, c. 25 BCNo man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
—Samuel Johnson, 1776Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo.
—Matsuo Basho, c. 1685