Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
—Hazel Rochman, 1995
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Who hears the fishes when they cry?
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
—Aleister Crowley, 1904If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
—Francis Bacon, 1615A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can’t think of anything else to do.
—W.H. Auden, 1946Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
—Erica Jong, 1973Best is water.
—Pindar, 476 BCI live by good soup, and not on fine language.
—Molière, 1672Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa, c. 1975Much money makes a country poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.
—George Herbert, 1640The mill will never grind with water that is past.
—Daniel McCallum, 1870Music today is nothing more than the art of performing difficult pieces.
—Voltaire, 1759The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.
—Mencius, c. 270 BC