Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.
—Giorgio Baglivi, c. 1696
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We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
—Sydney Smith, 1855If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better I should not have come.
—Raymond Chandler, 1945Envy and hatred are apt to blind the eyes and render them unable to behold things as they are.
—Margaret of Valois, c. 1600Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCAgain, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCAfter each night we are emptier: our mysteries and our griefs have leaked away into our dreams.
—E.M. Cioran, 1949The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
—André Breton, 1937They exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home.
—Virgil, c. 30 BCAt night comes counsel to the wise.
—Menander, c. 300 BCResentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
—Book of Job, c. 600 BCThe future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941