The best way to fill time is to waste it.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
—Chinua Achebe, 1958Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the king’s horses.
—Gnomologia, 1732The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.
—Charles Lamb, 1833Cows are among the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them—and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
—Thomas De Quincey, 1821The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1908God is our father, but even more is God our mother.
—Pope John Paul I, 1978For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860