The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
—Carl Sandburg, 1934
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Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903The gratitude is greater than the gift.
—Pierre Corneille, 1641Ashore it’s wine, women, and song; aboard it’s rum, bum, and concertina.
—British naval saying, c. 1800It belongs to a nobleman to weep in an hour of disaster.
—Euripides, 412 BCChildhood has no forebodings—but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
—George Eliot, 1860There is no small pleasure in sweet water.
—Ovid, c. 10Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Jokes are grievances.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1969All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
—Havelock Ellis, 1921It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… it seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do—or don’t do.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1966An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
—James Russell Lowell, c. 1865At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
—Rose Macaulay, 1925