When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverb
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
—George Santayana, 1905The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.
—John Updike, 1963Scandal begins where the police leave off.
—Karl Kraus, 1909None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
—Pearl S. Buck, 1943Man is a troublesome animal and therefore is not very manageable.
—Plato, c. 349 BCThe only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
—Anna Jameson, 1846How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do.
—William James, 1902How sad a sight is human happiness to those whose thoughts can pierce beyond an hour!
—Edward Young, 1741Those who are awake have a world that is one and common, but each of those who are asleep turns aside into his own particular world.
—Heraclitus, c. 500 BCMethinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.
—Virginia Woolf, 1899