Quotes

Enemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.

—Elsa Maxwell, 1955

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

—Maya Angelou, 1993

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

—Booth Tarkington, 1914

Pushing someone toward liberty does not set her free; taking the chains off a prisoner does not give him freedom.

—Ken Bugul, 1982

Moderation in all things.

—Terence, 166 BC

There is no art without Eros.

—Max Frisch, 1983

He alone who owns the youth gains the future.

—Adolf Hitler, 1935

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

—Tecumseh, 1810

Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.

—William Wycherley, 1675

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, 1911

In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.

—R.D. Laing, 1967

Abstainer, n. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.

—Jane Austen, c. 1798

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