Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
—Edmund Burke, 1765
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To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1954The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
—William Blake, 1793I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.
—Jane Austen, c. 1798Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.
—Martin Luther, c. 1530When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.
—Iris Murdoch, 1978Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.
—Aldo Leopold, 1933It 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, 1925Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
—Willa Cather, 1918Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
—Susan Sontag, 1963Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.
—Italo Calvino, 1957