It was lonesome, the leaving.
—Wetatonmi, c. 1877
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Fear is a poor guarantor of a long life.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street.
—Mary Lease, c. 1890In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1830The tune I remember, could I but keep the words.
—Virgil, 38 BCNecessity knows no law except to conquer.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCThe waters are nature’s storehouse, in which she locks up her wonders.
—Izaak Walton, 1653Years are nothing to me—they should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or to consider them? In the world of wild nature, time is measured by seasons only—the bird does not know how old it is—the rose tree does not count its birthdays!
—Marie Corelli, 1911Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
—Robert Benchley, 1935A dog starved at his master’s gate / Predicts the ruin of the state.
—William Blake, 1807There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
—Virginia Woolf, 1927The great difficulty lies in trying to transpose last night’s moment to a day which has no knowledge of it.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.
—Juvenal, 128