Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1754
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Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.
—Derek Walcott, 1986Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.
—Anthony Doerr, 2006All that we know is nothing can be known.
—Lord Byron, 1812The tune I remember, could I but keep the words.
—Virgil, 38 BCThe young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.
—Wallace Stevens, 1952However harmless a thing is, if the law forbids it, most people will think it wrong.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is better, only the god knows.
—Socrates, 399 BCHatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.
—Rebecca West, 1912If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.
—David Sedaris, 2004