One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580
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Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.
—Chinese proverbI know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborNothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837He may be a patriot for Austria, but the question is whether he is a patriot for me.
—Emperor Francis Joseph, c. 1850I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
—Anaïs Nin, 1950Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.
—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BCRefrigerators and television sets, or even rockets sent to the moon, do not change man into God.
—Czesław Miłosz, 1960Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.
—Albert Einstein, 1930My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968’Tis the destroyer, or the devil, that scatters plagues about the world.
—Cotton Mather, 1693Friendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924