Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques Lacan
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Ah! Freedom is a noble thing!
—John Barbour, 1375Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with the necessities.
—John Lothrop Motley, 1858Freedom of the press is only guaranteed to those who own one.
—A.J. Liebling, 1960A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906As man disappears from sight, the land remains.
—Maori proverbYears are nothing to me—they should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or to consider them? In the world of wild nature, time is measured by seasons only—the bird does not know how old it is—the rose tree does not count its birthdays!
—Marie Corelli, 1911I looked and there was a pale green horse! Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed with him.
—Book of Revelations, c. 90I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am.
—Alice James, 1889In the Middle Ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
—Robert Runcie, 1988Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.
—Horace, c. 20 BCIf both what is before and what is after are in this same “now,” things which happened ten thousand years ago would be simultaneous with what has happened today, and nothing would be before or after anything else.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BC