A first-class man subsists on the matter he destroys.
—Saul Bellow, 1989
Archive
Quotes
That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.
—Willa Cather, 1918Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
—James Madison, 1794We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.
—Aldo Leopold, 1933The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871When you drink water, think of its source.
—Chinese proverbNo wise man ever wished to be younger.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.
—Antonio Porchia, 1943Because the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable and worshipful ancestors had not recovered from their ailments, you and I would not be here today.
—Confucius, c. 515 BCYes to a market economy, no to a market society.
—Lionel Jospin, 1998