There is no happiness like that of a young couple in a little house they have built themselves in a place of beauty and solitude.
—Annie Proulx, 2008
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Journalists belong in the gutter, because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.
—Gerald Priestland, 1988It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1843Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings.
—Anna Quindlen, 2012Today’s friend may be tomorrow’s foe.
—Sophocles, 440 BCThat which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want to ascertain a man’s true character, make him drunk.
—Martin Luther, 1569Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1856After midnight the moon set and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.
—Amelia Earhart, 1935Some memories are like lucky charms, talismans, one shouldn’t tell about them or they’ll lose their power.
—Iris Murdoch, 1985They say that gifts persuade even the gods.
—Euripides, 431 BCThe more sifted, the finer the flour; the more often repeated, the rougher the gossip.
—Korean proverbI had rather be in a state of misery and envied for my supposed happiness than in a state of happiness and pitied for my supposed misery.
—Elizabeth Inchbald, 1793