Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
—Jane Austen, 1811
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I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962Yes to a market economy, no to a market society.
—Lionel Jospin, 1998That sweet bondage which is freedom’s self.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1813Do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2350 BCWhen one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
—Alice Hegan Rice, 1917Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
—Noël Coward, 1930Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCDrugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.
—Mary Baker Eddy, 1908You are dust, and to dust you shall return.
—Book of Genesis, c. 800 BCNature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.
—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge.
—Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, 1654