Memory is like the moon, which hath its new, its full, and its wane.
—Margaret Cavendish, 1655
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It would be impossible to live for a year without disaster unless one practiced character-reading.
—Virginia Woolf, 1924Those who cross the seas change their climate but not their character.
—Roman proverbIf you stain clear water with filth, you will never find a drink.
—Aeschylus, 458 BCAll the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
—Al Smith, 1933There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
—Mark Twain, 1876As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan, 1943Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857Oil! Our secret god, our secret sharer, our magic wand, fulfiller of our every desire, our coconspirator, the sine qua non in all we do!
—Margaret Atwood, 2015The nature of God is a circle, of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
—Empedocles, c. 450 BCNewspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
—Charles Lamb, 1833Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.
—Derek Walcott, 1986