That obtained in youth may endure like characters engraved in stones.
—Ibn Gabirol, 1040
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It is noble to die before doing anything that deserves death.
—Anaxandrides, c. 376I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
—George Borrow, 1843There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
—Homer, c. 750 BCRevolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1929Power is so apt to be insolent, and Liberty to be saucy, that they are very seldom upon good terms.
—George Savile, c. 1690Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1940The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.
—Edward O. Wilson, 2009In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is better, only the god knows.
—Socrates, 399 BCFormula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
—J. Paul GettyHow many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort in a hospital.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1857