There is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943
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Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913Drink does not drown care but waters it, and makes it grow faster.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1749Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
—Jane Austen, 1815When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605The sea hath no king but God alone.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1881The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended—and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.
—Robert Frost, 1939You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.
—Walter Lippmann, 1913History in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another.
—Ellsworth Huntington, 1919After each night we are emptier: our mysteries and our griefs have leaked away into our dreams.
—E.M. Cioran, 1949The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
—Erich Fromm, 1941