Guard more faithfully the secret which is confided to you than the money which is entrusted to your care.
—Isocrates, c. 370 BC
Archive
Quotes
One’s body, hair, and skin are a gift from one’s parents—do not dare to allow them to be harmed.
—Classic of Filial Piety, c. 200 BCMusic is our myth of the inner life.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942Power is so apt to be insolent, and Liberty to be saucy, that they are very seldom upon good terms.
—George Savile, c. 1690Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862We don’t have the option of turning away from the future. No one gets to vote on whether technology is going to change our lives.
—Bill Gates, 1995A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCMusic melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
—Anaïs Nin, 1939It’s the end of the world every day, for someone.
—Margaret Atwood, 2000I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
—H. Rap Brown, 1967He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.
—Muhammad, c. 630To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverb