Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.
—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330
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The oldest voice in the world is the wind.
—Donald Culross Peattie, 1950Technology is so much fun, but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
—Daniel Boorstin, 1978What touches all shall be approved by all.
—Edward I, 1295Do you suppose that will change the sense of the morals, the fact that we can’t use morals as a means of judging the city because we couldn’t stand it? And that we’re changing our whole moral system to suit the fact that we’re living in a ridiculous way?
—Philip Johnson, 1965Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.
—Charles I, 1636Everybody says it; and what everybody says must be true.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1844What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
—Henry Adams, 1907To be too conscious is an illness—a real thoroughgoing illness.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
—Mencius, 300 BCLord, I do not ask that thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1898Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?
—Aristophanes, 423 BCWar is sweet to those who don’t know it.
—Erasmus, 1508