Luck takes the step that no one sees.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCQuotes
Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.
—Jean Baudrillard, c. 1987It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… it seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do—or don’t do.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1966To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872Best is water.
—Pindar, 476 BCOnce a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCShips at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1937He who sings frightens away his ills.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1754Everyone knows about everybody in Hollywood—who sleeps with whom, who doesn’t sleep, who does it standing on his head or in the dentist’s chair.
—Rock Hudson, 1982Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.
—Aldo Leopold, 1933Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
—John Morley, 1872