Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
—Gertrude Stein, 1914
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I don’t believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
—Woody Allen, 1971Home is wherever I go.
—Indira Gandhi, 1955I am weary of friends, and friendships are all monsters.
—Jonathan Swift, 1710Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
—Brigitte Bardot, 1989Though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.
—Bion of Smyrna, c. 100 BCI have loved war too well.
—Louis XIV, 1715Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.
—Horace Walpole, 1745I looked and there was a pale green horse! Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed with him.
—Book of Revelations, c. 90Knowledge itself is power.
—Francis Bacon, 1597When you name yourself, you always name another.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1926Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.
—William Penn, 1693