I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
—Anaïs Nin, 1950
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Friendship’s a noble name, ’tis love refined.
—Susanna Centlivre, 1703Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1885One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
—Julia Child, 2001Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.
—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1776In life our absent friend is far away: / But death may bring our friend exceeding near.
—Christina Rossetti, 1881Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Till taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.
—Lord Byron, 1819Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1908