Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
—Roald Dahl, 1990
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Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
—Voltaire, 1770If there is a technological advance without a social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
—Michael Harrington, 1962Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.
—Horace, c. 20 BCIt is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
—Friedrich Schiller, 1781Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.
—Doris Lessing, 1994Some folks want their luck buttered.
—Thomas Hardy, 1886It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.
—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1940When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbThe bathing was so delightful this morning, and Molly so pressing with me to enjoy myself, that I believe I stayed in rather too long, as since the middle of the day I have felt unreasonably tired. I shall be more careful another time, and shall not bathe tomorrow as I had before intended.
—Jane Austen, 1804