Childhood has no forebodings—but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
—George Eliot, 1860
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Is it a fact—or have I dreamed it—that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851I proclaim night more truthful than the day.
—Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1956It is one thing to slander, another to accuse.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 56 BCFriendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive.
—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BCThe proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615In the name of Hippocrates doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
—E.B. White, 1944Fire destroys that which feeds it.
—Simone Weil, c. 1940Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
—Wendell Berry, 1983Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864