He who would be happy should stay at home.
—Greek proverb
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The gratitude is greater than the gift.
—Pierre Corneille, 1641The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1918Enemies are so stimulating.
—Katharine Hepburn, 1969I think heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of heaven here.
—Emily Dickinson, 1879There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
—Francis Bacon, 1625Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
—Anaïs Nin, 1939There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.
—Sylvia Plath, 1963History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
—Theodor Adorno, c. 1946If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
—Dorothy ParkerThere is no small pleasure in sweet water.
—Ovid, c. 10What will not attract a man’s stare at sea?—a gull, a turtle, a flying fish!
—Richard Burton, 1883