Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.
—Anthony Doerr, 2006
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Punishment is a sort of medicine.
—Aristotle, c. 340 BCWar is sweet to those who don’t know it.
—Erasmus, 1508All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895My ideas are clear. My orders are precise. Within five years, Rome must appear marvelous to all the people of the world—vast, orderly, powerful, as in the time of the empire of Augustus.
—Benito Mussolini, 1929The more laws, the more lawbreakers.
—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BCFamiliarity breeds contempt—and children.
—Mark Twain, c. 1900When the abbot throws the dice, the whole convent will play.
—Martin Luther, c. 1540To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1954The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea. It is down there that the sea folk live.
—Hans Christian Andersen, 1837If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
—Dorothy ParkerIt is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963