Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.
—Barbara Kingsolver, 1990
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The belly is the teacher of the arts and bestower of invention.
—Persius, c. 55Refrigerators and television sets, or even rockets sent to the moon, do not change man into God.
—Czesław Miłosz, 1960You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
—Henrik Ibsen, 1882Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.
—Rebecca West, 1959We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time’s carcass.
—Karl Marx, 1847Doing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
—Roger Ebert, 1998No time to marry, no time to settle down, I’m a young woman, and ain’t done runnin’ round.
—Bessie Smith, 1926A true German can’t stand the French, / Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832It is hard when nature does not respect your intentions, and she never does exactly respect them.
—Wendell Berry, 1985Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
—William Morris, 1882When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
—Winston Churchill, 1945What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1850