Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910
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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1886It 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, 1925Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverbOne of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
—George Eliot, 1866Dance tunes are always right.
—Dylan Thomas, 1936Industrialism is the religion with “the machine” as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.
—Dora Russell, 1983The play is the tragedy “Man,” And its hero the conqueror worm.
—Edgar Allan Poe, 1843I detest war. It spoils armies.
—Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, c. 1820Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
—Walter Pater, 1873If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904