Do you not see how God is praised by those in the heavens and those on earth? The very birds praised Him as they wing their way.
—The Qur’an, c. 620
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Years are nothing to me—they should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or to consider them? In the world of wild nature, time is measured by seasons only—the bird does not know how old it is—the rose tree does not count its birthdays!
—Marie Corelli, 1911Everyone lives by selling something.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1892In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.
—R.D. Laing, 1967The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
—Yves Saint Laurent, 1978We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time’s carcass.
—Karl Marx, 1847Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BCIn its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
—Michel Foucault, 1975In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.
—Thomas Szasz, 1970Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.
—George Herbert, 1651It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.
—Mary Boykin Chesnut, 1865We do not suffer by accident.
—Jane Austen, 1813Exchange is no robbery.
—German proverb