In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you’re told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.
—Simon Hoggart, 1990
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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1897All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849Memory is like the moon, which hath its new, its full, and its wane.
—Margaret Cavendish, 1655How sad a sight is human happiness to those whose thoughts can pierce beyond an hour!
—Edward Young, 1741Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
—Homer, c. 750 BCWe call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
—Anna Sewell, 1877The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871Divine nature gave the fields; human art built the cities.
—Marcus Terentius Varro, c. 70 BCI do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1807