I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am.
—Alice James, 1889
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Commerce has made all winds her ministers.
—John Sterling, 1843This is Year Zero.
—Pol Pot, 1975What are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64The envious die not once, but as often as the envied win applause.
—Baltasar Gracián, 1647Music is our myth of the inner life.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1886Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverbTo endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688Never trust her at any time when the calm sea shows her false alluring smile.
—Lucretius, c. 60 BCDestiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
—William Jennings Bryan, 1899I’m doomed to die, right? Why should I care if I go to Hades either with gout in my leg or a runner’s grace? Plenty of people will carry me there.
—Nicharchus, c. 90Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
—Iris Murdoch, 1974