Dread attends the unknown.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1998
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The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
—Italo Calvino, 1967Happiness is a warm puppy.
—Charles Schulz, 1971Thanks be to God: since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
—Samuel Pepys, 1662The righteous know the needs of their animals, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 500 BCBe temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth, or the Gout will seize you.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1734Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCNothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
—Albert Camus, c. 1940All those who suffer in the world do so because of their desire for their own happiness.
—Shantideva, c. 750There never was a good war or a bad peace.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1773The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified heads, fills citified ears—as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk happy.
—Frank Lloyd Wright, 1958The sea hath no king but God alone.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1881Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
—Patricia Highsmith, 1960