The young man must store up, the old man must use.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 63
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To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
—Aldous Huxley, 1929No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
—Bertrand Russell, 1961The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honor or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
—Italo Calvino, 1967What delight can there be, and not rather displeasure, in hearing the barking and howling of dogs? Or what greater pleasure is there to be felt when a dog followeth a hare than when a dog followeth a dog?
—Thomas More, 1516Home is wherever I go.
—Indira Gandhi, 1955Commerce has made all winds her ministers.
—John Sterling, 1843It belongs to a nobleman to weep in an hour of disaster.
—Euripides, 412 BCWhen the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
—Winston Churchill, 1945