Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
—John Berger, 1987
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1897History is a people’s memory, and without a memory man is demoted to the level of the lower animals.
—Malcolm X, 1964Man punishes the action, but God the intention.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
—Kin HubbardI have been a stranger here in my own land all my life.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCI cannot bear a parent’s tears.
—Virgil, c. 25 BCEpitaph, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929True friendship withstands time, distance, and silence.
—Isabel Allende, 2000The happiness of society is the end of government.
—John Adams, 1776