O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596
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After each night we are emptier: our mysteries and our griefs have leaked away into our dreams.
—E.M. Cioran, 1949Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.
—Euripides, c. 425 BCThe wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
—Joshua Slocum, 1900Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.
—Barbara Kingsolver, 1990Suffering has its limit, but fears are endless.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 108Anyone who has a child should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.
—W.H. Auden, 1947A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in / A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.
—Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1895I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCMen have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665If I had been born a man, I would have conquered Europe. As I was born a woman, I exhausted my energy in tirades against fate and in eccentricities.
—Marie Bashkirtseff, 1884Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955