Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930
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I ride rough waters and shall sink with no one to save me.
—Virginia Woolf, 1931The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
—Agnes Repplier, 1929Some memories are like lucky charms, talismans, one shouldn’t tell about them or they’ll lose their power.
—Iris Murdoch, 1985Death renders all equal.
—Claudian, c. 395Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1755One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.
—Iris Murdoch, 1978Anyone who in discussion quotes authority uses his memory rather than his intellect.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.
—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell!
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1843I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.
—Edith Konecky, 1976By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955