If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910
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Happiness does not dwell in herds, nor yet in gold.
—Democritus, c. 420 BCI had rather be in a state of misery and envied for my supposed happiness than in a state of happiness and pitied for my supposed misery.
—Elizabeth Inchbald, 1793Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992As matron and mistress will differ in temper and tone, so will the friend be distinct from the faithless parasite.
—Horace, c. 20 BCSuffering has its limit, but fears are endless.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 108Jests and scoffs do lessen majesty and greatness and should be far from great personages and men of wisdom.
—Henry Peacham, 1622They say that gifts persuade even the gods.
—Euripides, 431 BCThe wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
—William Blake, 1793Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
—George Orwell, 1944A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851When man wanted to make a machine that would walk, he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.
—Guillaume Apollinaire, 1917What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
—Joseph Addison, 1711