Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937
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I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
—Maya Angelou, 1993There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
—Mark Twain, 1894We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
—Aesop, c. 600 BCNothing from nothing ever yet was born.
—Lucretius, c. 58 BCSecrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
—Mark Twain, 1897Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958He who is afraid of his own memories is cowardly, really cowardly.
—Elias Canetti, 1954Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
—Aldous Huxley, 1929What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
—Henry Adams, 1907Happiness is a warm puppy.
—Charles Schulz, 1971The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1919