Don’t ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.
—Colette, 1944
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Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right.
—Judge Learned Hand, 1944The young man must store up, the old man must use.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 63A jest breaks no bones.
—Samuel Johnson, 1781Men, my dear, are very queer animals—a mixture of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel malice.
—T. H. Huxley, 1895Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCIn my dreams I sleep with everybody.
—Anaïs Nin, 1933Why is a ship under sail more poetical than a hog in a high wind? The hog is all nature, the ship is all art.
—Lord Byron, 1821It is very foolish to attack one’s enemy openly if one can injure him in secret.
—Giambattista Giraldi, 1543The sea hath no king but God alone.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1881Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830