Spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of birdsong.
—Rachel Carson, 1962
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The worship of opinion is, at this day, the established religion of the United States.
—Harriet Martineau, 1839All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
—Plotinus, c. 255Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.
—Plato, c. 375 BCWhat one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
—Voltaire, 1770I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborMan is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
—William Hazlitt, 1819Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.
—William Empson, 1928The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCHe that commands the sea is at great liberty and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600Vox populi, vox humbug.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863Man punishes the action, but God the intention.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732