At night comes counsel to the wise.
—Menander, c. 300 BC
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No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1897I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
—Lord Byron, 1813All pain is one malady with many names.
—Antiphanes, c. 400 BCMother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.
—Albert Camus, 1942Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
—Fanny Burney, 1782The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
—Heinrich Heine, 1827Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
—Kin HubbardA whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851Anyone who has a child should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.
—W.H. Auden, 1947Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
—Aldous Huxley, 1929The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983