Shamelessness is the shame of being without shame.
—Mencius, c. 290 BC
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Years are nothing to me—they should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or to consider them? In the world of wild nature, time is measured by seasons only—the bird does not know how old it is—the rose tree does not count its birthdays!
—Marie Corelli, 1911A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
—Samuel Johnson, c. 1770More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880Nature contains no one constant form.
—Paul-Henri Dietrich d’Holbach, 1770A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670I think heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of heaven here.
—Emily Dickinson, 1879The sea receives us in a proper way only when we are without clothes.
—Pliny the Elder, 77I am no courtesan, nor moderator, nor tribune, nor defender of the people: I am myself the people.
—Maximilien Robespierre, 1792Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
—Calvin Coolidge, 1932Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.
—Terence, 161 BCThe world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.
—George Moore, 1888