Everybody says it; and what everybody says must be true.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1844
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There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.
—Eleanor Robson Belmont, 1957They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
—Francis Bacon, 1605Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
—George Eliot, 1876Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.
—Doris Lessing, 1994Written laws are like spiderwebs: they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.
—Anacharsis, c. 550 BCWith the dead there is no rivalry.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1839After each night we are emptier: our mysteries and our griefs have leaked away into our dreams.
—E.M. Cioran, 1949We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1928Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1754To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BC