The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957
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Night affords the most convenient shade for works of darkness.
—John Taylor, 1750Friends are ourselves.
—John Donne, 1603Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1940Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747We seek with our human hands to create a second nature in the natural world.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCSeek not water, only show you are thirsty, / That water may spring up all around you.
—Rumi, c. 1260Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.
—Euripides, 431 BCA man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
—Victor Hugo, 1862If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
—Margaret Atwood, 2005Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885A monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 109Life is no way to treat an animal.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005