Bright youth passes as quickly as thought.
—Theognis, c. 550 BC
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Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the king’s horses.
—Gnomologia, 1732The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1789We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
—Anna Sewell, 1877The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.
—Wallace Stevens, 1952The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
—George Santayana, 1905Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.
—Epictetus, c. 100Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890The sea is mother-death, and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
—Anne Sexton, 1971God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.
—Pablo Picasso, 1964All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
—Edmund Burke, 1796No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1809