Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
—William James, 1902
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Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1886It would seem that in history it’s never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.
—Sybille Bedford, 1963If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.
—Congolese proverbI know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588Good men must not obey the laws too well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
—Joseph Joubert, 1811The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.
—Johannes Kepler, 1605The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
—Heinrich Heine, 1827Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.
—Anthony Doerr, 2006The young man must store up, the old man must use.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 63Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
—Frank Zappa, 1989