How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.
—Charles Lamb, 1833
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What hath night to do with sleep?
—John Milton, 1637The right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing else than the right to disillusionment phrased in another way.
—Aldous Huxley, 1956A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!
—Philip Roth, 1969The god of music dwelleth out of doors.
—Edith M. Thomas, 1887It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.
—Erasmus, 1518The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1838All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.
—James Joyce, 1939Exchange is no robbery.
—German proverbIf I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
—Mark Twain, 1894The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1929