God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
—J.M. Barrie, 1922
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Hang work! I wish that all the year were holiday; I am sure that Indolence—indefeasible Indolence—is the true state of man.
—Charles Lamb, 1805The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.
—Demosthenes, 349 BCThey are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
—Francis Bacon, 1605I’m doomed to die, right? Why should I care if I go to Hades either with gout in my leg or a runner’s grace? Plenty of people will carry me there.
—Nicharchus, c. 90Animals are good to think with.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962I am a living symbol of the white man’s fear.
—Winnie Mandela, 1985A good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.
—Ben Jonson, 1633There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbAll of the great musicians have borrowed from the songs of the common people.
—Antonín Dvořák, 1893Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920