Idolatry is the mother of all games.
—Novatian, c. 255
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A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert, 1640One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929Business is other people’s money.
—Delphine de Girardin, 1852Style is the image of character.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1789The sea receives us in a proper way only when we are without clothes.
—Pliny the Elder, 77Of all objects that I have ever seen, there is none which affects my imagination so much as the sea or ocean. A troubled ocean, to a man who sails upon it, is, I think, the biggest object that he can see in motion, and consequently gives his imagination one of the highest kinds of pleasure that can arise from greatness.
—Joseph Addison, 1712One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.
—Wallace Stevens, 1952Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
—Robert Benchley, 1935The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911