The smell of rain is rich with life.
—Estela Portillo Trambley, 1975
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A dog starved at his master’s gate / Predicts the ruin of the state.
—William Blake, 1807Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.
—Antonio Porchia, 1943Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839If one hears bad music, it is one’s duty to drown it by conversation.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938Whatever the apparent cause of any riots may be, the real one is always want of happiness.
—Thomas Paine, 1792I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae WestTo achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
—Jean Genet, 1949Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the inclination of your heart and the desire of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 200 BCThere are many civil questions that arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled.
—William Howard Taft, 1921Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
—Helen Keller, 1936