I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
—Xenocrates, c. 350 BC
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There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
—Booth Tarkington, 1914The sick man is the parasite of society.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889I think we are inexterminable, like flies and bedbugs.
—Robert Frost, 1959The god of music dwelleth out of doors.
—Edith M. Thomas, 1887Uprootedness is by far the most dangerous malady to which human societies are exposed, for it is a self-propagating one.
—Simone Weil, 1943When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1657Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort in a hospital.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1857The sea is mother-death, and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
—Anne Sexton, 1971We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.
—Evelyn Waugh, 1963If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981Civilization, as we know it, is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
—Arnold Toynbee, 1948