Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903
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Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it, and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1790’Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables?
—Thomas Browne, 1642What delight can there be, and not rather displeasure, in hearing the barking and howling of dogs? Or what greater pleasure is there to be felt when a dog followeth a hare than when a dog followeth a dog?
—Thomas More, 1516An irreligious man is not one who denies the gods of the majority, but one who applies to the gods the opinions of the majority. For what most men say about the gods are not ideas derived from sensation, but false opinions, according to which the greatest evils come to the wicked, and the greatest blessings come to the good from the gods.
—Epicurus, c. 250 BCThe more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
—Plato, c. 375 BCThe sea is mother-death, and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
—Anne Sexton, 1971Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.
—Ben Jonson, 1601I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595If you were to ask me if I’d ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I’d have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891