Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money’s guest.
—Norman O. Brown, 1959
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A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will—whatever we may think.
—Lawrence Durrell, 1957My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968If I lose at play, I blaspheme, and if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So that God is always sure to be the loser.
—John Donne, 1623A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922Man is a tool-using animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1836Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
—Susan Sontag, 1963Be courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
—George Washington, 1783No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called games.
—W.H. Auden, 1962Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
—Frank Zappa, 1989My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967I have loved war too well.
—Louis XIV, 1715