One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbThe ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
—Erica Jong, 1973A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong.
—Ecclesiasticus, c. 180 BCA god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
—Pliny the Elder, c. 77Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
—E.M. Forster, 1951Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925I never yet could make out why men are so fond of hunting; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields—and all for a hare or a fox or a stag that they could get more easily some other way.
—Anna Sewell, 1877Luck takes the step that no one sees.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCTime robs us of all, even of memory.
—Virgil, c. 40 BC