Reputation, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
—Douglas Jerrold, 1840
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Friendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
—Christina Stead, 1938The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, / And drinks, and gapes for drink again.
—Abraham Cowley, 1656The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified heads, fills citified ears—as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk happy.
—Frank Lloyd Wright, 1958Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
—Barbara Walters, 1975Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.
—Chinese proverbWhen the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
—St. Jerome, 395I wants to make your flesh creep.
—Charles Dickens, 1837I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.
—Margaret Atwood, 1976In every ill turn of fortune, the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.
—Boethius, c. 520A win always seems shallow: it is the loss that is so profound and suggests nasty infinities.
—E.M. Forster, 1919