To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872
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Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1732Recreations should be as sauces to your meat, to sharpen your appetite unto the duties of your calling, and not to glut yourselves with them.
—Thomas Gouge, 1672Before the earth could become an industrial garbage can, it had first to become a research laboratory.
—Theodore Roszak, 1972I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.
—Horace, 20 BCMan must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.
—Henry George, 1879I will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
—George Santayana, c. 1914The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chawing a hunk of melon in the dust.
—Elizabeth Bowen, 1955What is life but organized energy?
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1958Conjecturing a Climate
Of unsuspended Suns –
Adds poignancy to Winter