It is hard when nature does not respect your intentions, and she never does exactly respect them.
—Wendell Berry, 1985
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Language is the house of being. In its home human beings dwell. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.
—Martin Heidegger, 1949The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
—Laurence Sterne, 1760Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733Memory is necessary for all operations of reasoning.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1658When I do a show, the whole show revolves around me, and if I don’t show up, they can just forget it.
—Ethel Merman, c. 1955Whoever has died is freed from sin.
—St. Paul, c. 50Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958I don’t believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
—Woody Allen, 1971In the Middle Ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
—Robert Runcie, 1988Today’s friend may be tomorrow’s foe.
—Sophocles, 440 BCThere are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
—Madame de Sévigné, 1671I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.
—Antonio Porchia, 1943