Friends are ourselves.
—John Donne, 1603
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Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water.
—Zadie Smith, 2000Childhood has no forebodings—but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
—George Eliot, 1860The god of music dwelleth out of doors.
—Edith M. Thomas, 1887If a king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.
—Mencius, c. 330 BCGovernments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.
—Dionysius of Halicarnassus, c. 20 BCDemocracy is the menopause of Western society, the grand climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
—Jean Baudrillard, 1987The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, / And drinks, and gapes for drink again.
—Abraham Cowley, 1656The Mediterranean has the colors of a mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet—you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing light has taken on a tinge of pink or gray.
—Vincent van Gogh, 1888The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895The smell of rain is rich with life.
—Estela Portillo Trambley, 1975A college degree is a social certificate, not a proof of competence.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911