A world is sooner destroyed than made.
—Thomas Burnet, 1684
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What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
—Voltaire, 1723The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
—John Locke, 1695What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
—Joseph Addison, 1711Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BCNothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
—Woody Allen, 1979All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1978Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
—Anatole France, 1881All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
—Rose Macaulay, 1925There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.
—Jean Anouilh, 1934