Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
—Fanny Burney, 1782
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I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it—yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don’t give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.
—Orson Welles, 1953If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BCCharity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
—Charles Dickens, 1843Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain.
—Clover Adams, 1882Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.
—Juvenal, 128Seamen are the nearest to death and the furthest from God.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732It is impossible to tell which of the two dispositions we find in men is more harmful in a republic, that which seeks to maintain an established position or that which has none but seeks to acquire it.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, c. 1515A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
—P.D. James, 1992How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do.
—William James, 1902From the cradle to the coffin, underwear comes first.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1928I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend than be one.
—Clarence Darrow, 1932Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
—Gore Vidal, 1981