Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839
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I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.
—Thomas Malory, c. 1470When night in her rusty dungeon has imprisoned our eyesight, and that we are shut separately in our chambers from resort, the devil keeps his audit in our sin-guilty consciences.
—Thomas Nashe, 1594Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BCFormula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
—J. Paul GettyThe mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
—Jane Austen, 1811Among famous traitors of history, one might mention the weather.
—Ilka Chase, 1969It is wretched business to be digging a well just as you’re dying of thirst.
—Plautus, c. 193 BCIf both what is before and what is after are in this same “now,” things which happened ten thousand years ago would be simultaneous with what has happened today, and nothing would be before or after anything else.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCThe law looks at no one’s face.
—Gabriel Okara, 1964I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
—Xenocrates, c. 350 BC