Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
—Tertullian, c. 215
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If I played in New York, they’d name a candy bar after me.
—Reggie Jackson, 1976Gossip isn’t scandal and it’s not merely malicious. It’s chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
—Phyllis McGinley, 1957We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion if we want to be happy.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944He who has nothing has no friends.
—Greek proverbThe world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851The United States has virtually set up an empire on impounded and redistributed water.
—Charles P. Berkey, 1946What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
—Henry Adams, 1907There is no method by which men can be both free and equal.
—Walter Bagehot, 1863Exile lacks the grandeur, the majesty, of expatriation.
—Bharati Mukherjee, 1999You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
—Joseph Conrad, 1900When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.
—Francis Bacon, 1625Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC