The life of a sailor is very unhealthy.
—Francis Galton, 1883
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.
—Euripides, c. 425 BCMusic is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.
—Henry Miller, 1945The law is far, the fist is near.
—Korean proverbHe who is afraid of his own memories is cowardly, really cowardly.
—Elias Canetti, 1954They say, “We only have the life of this world. We die and we live, and nothing destroys us but time.” Yet, not true knowledge have they of this—only belief.
—The Qur’an, c. 620Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it, and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1790He who has nothing has no friends.
—Greek proverbI’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion—a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge. One may have that condition by fits only.
—George Eliot, c. 1872Life’s no resting, but a moving.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the king’s horses.
—Gnomologia, 1732