Art imitates nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his master; thus it is a sort of grandchild of God.
—Dante, c. 1315
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The only equals are those who are equally rich.
—Burundian proverbOne thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCIn every man is a wild beast; most of them don’t know how to hold it back, and the majority give it full rein when they are not restrained by terror of law.
—Frederick the Great, 1759All art is a revolt against man’s fate.
—André Malraux, 1951Years are nothing to me—they should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or to consider them? In the world of wild nature, time is measured by seasons only—the bird does not know how old it is—the rose tree does not count its birthdays!
—Marie Corelli, 1911Slang is as old as speech and the congregating together of people in cities. It is the result of crowding and excitement and artificial life.
—John Camden Hotten, 1859The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
—Aristotle, c. 322 BCWhen the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
—St. Jerome, 395There is no happiness like that of a young couple in a little house they have built themselves in a place of beauty and solitude.
—Annie Proulx, 2008The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.
—James Joyce, 1922A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort in a hospital.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1857