One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958
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By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCHe knows the water best who has waded through it.
—Danish proverbIt is not right for a ruler who has the nation in his charge, a man with so much on his mind, to sleep all night.
—Homer, c. 750 BCI imagined it was more difficult to die.
—Louis XIV, 1715If I had been born a man, I would have conquered Europe. As I was born a woman, I exhausted my energy in tirades against fate and in eccentricities.
—Marie Bashkirtseff, 1884‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860Someone will remember us
I say
even in another time.
What man was ever content with one crime?
—Juvenal, c. 125Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
—John Berger, 1987He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1833The smell of rain is rich with life.
—Estela Portillo Trambley, 1975Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.
—Mark Twain, 1873