Spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of birdsong.
—Rachel Carson, 1962
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Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
—Sigmund Freud, 1930The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.
—Molière, 1666The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1978An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1746One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and justly, and impossible to live wisely, well, and justly without living pleasurably.
—Epicurus, c. 300 BCMen worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.
—Bian Qiao, c. 500 BCThere is no small pleasure in sweet water.
—Ovid, c. 10Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, c. 1940The sea yields action to the body, meditation to the mind, the world to the world, all parts thereof to each part, by this art of arts—navigation.
—Samuel Purchas, 1613If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
—William Hazlitt, 1823