To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968
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The sole business of a seaman onshore who has to go to sea again is to take as much pleasure as he can.
—Leigh Hunt, 1820People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing’s as eternal as the dishes.
—Margaret Mahy, 1985All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
—Plotinus, c. 255No one’s serious at seventeen.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1870In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
—Anaïs Nin, 1933I won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God.
—Madonna, c. 1985The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
—Joshua Slocum, 1900No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1809There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.
We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1928I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am.
—Alice James, 1889