What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
—Joseph Addison, 1711
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No poems can please long, nor live, that are written by water drinkers.
—Horace, 35 BCWhen nature is overriden, she takes her revenge.
—Marya Mannes, 1958We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1922When a coward sees a man he can beat, he becomes hungry for a fight.
—Chinua Achebe, 1960Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?
—Alfred Hitchcock, 1962Oil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.
—Peter Hitchcock, 2010Casting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCLife isn’t all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman’s education.
—Thomas Hughes, 1857Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750The future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
—James Joyce, 1922Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747