Spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of birdsong.
—Rachel Carson, 1962
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Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
—Mark Twain, 1893The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947To live outside the law you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, / And say my glory was I had such friends.
—W.B. Yeats, 1937There is a time to battle against nature, and a time to obey her. True wisdom lies in making the right choice.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1979No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
—Roman proverbAll of the great musicians have borrowed from the songs of the common people.
—Antonín Dvořák, 1893Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it, and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1790I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae WestIt is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.
—Francis Bacon, 1625