Hoping for new friendship from old enemies is / Like expecting to find a rose in a furnace.
—Muhammad Baqir Najm-i Sani, 1612
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How sad a sight is human happiness to those whose thoughts can pierce beyond an hour!
—Edward Young, 1741Casting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCIf the heavens were all parchment, and the trees of the forest all pens, and every human being were a scribe, it would still be impossible to record all that I have learned from my teachers.
—Jochanan ben Zakkai, c. 75Wants keep pace with wealth always.
—Timothy Titcomb, 1859Nature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
—Carl Sandburg, 1934If there is a technological advance without a social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
—Michael Harrington, 1962The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.
—Juvenal, c. 125Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain there would be no life.
—John Updike, 1989Repetition is the mother of education.
—Jean Paul, 1807No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called games.
—W.H. Auden, 1962Dance tunes are always right.
—Dylan Thomas, 1936