There is no happiness like that of a young couple in a little house they have built themselves in a place of beauty and solitude.
—Annie Proulx, 2008
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
—Charles Baudelaire, c. 1865As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986Inventor, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers, and springs and believes it civilization.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCPut national causes first and personal grudges last.
—Sima Qian, c. 91 BCAnyone who has a child should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.
—W.H. Auden, 1947Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893They say, “We only have the life of this world. We die and we live, and nothing destroys us but time.” Yet, not true knowledge have they of this—only belief.
—The Qur’an, c. 620After midnight the moon set and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.
—Amelia Earhart, 1935A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
—P.D. James, 1992From the cradle to the coffin, underwear comes first.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1928