Quotes

Appearances often are deceiving.

—Aesop, c. 550 BC

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

—Voltaire, 1764

Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.

—T.S. Eliot, 1911

Dread attends the unknown.

—Nadine Gordimer, 1998

He knows the water best who has waded through it.

—Danish proverb

The planet keeps to the astronomer’s timetable, but the wind still bloweth almost where it listeth.

—John Henry Poynting, 1899

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

—Quentin Crisp, 1968

A good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.

—Ben Jonson, 1633

We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.

—Richard P. Feynman, 1965

In the country gossip is a pastime; in the city it is a warfare.

—W.M.L. Jay, 1870

How like to us is that filthy beast the ape.

—Cicero, 45 BC

One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.

—Phyllis Rose, 1991

Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

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