Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889
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Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.
—Benjamin Franklin, c. 1732Happiness is not something you can catch and lock up in a vault like wealth. Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1939Art imitates nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his master; thus it is a sort of grandchild of God.
—Dante, c. 1315Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCTo lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
—Michelangelo Antonioni, 1967In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.
—Thomas Szasz, 1970Vox populi, vox humbug.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.
—Charles Lamb, 1810Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.
—Clover Adams, 1882I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
—Lorraine Hansberry, 1965