More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling—it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.
—Gertrude Stein, 1943
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Happiness does not dwell in herds, nor yet in gold.
—Democritus, c. 420 BCNone who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
—Pearl S. Buck, 1943Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
—Anatole France, 1881Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
—Calvin Coolidge, 1932There is no profit without another’s loss.
—Roman proverbAll civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
—Havelock Ellis, 1921Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.
—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BCWhat a glut of books! Who can read them? As already, we shall have a vast chaos and confusion of books; we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.
—Robert Burton, 1621It costs a lot of money to be rich.
—Peter Boyle, 2002Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
Charity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862