Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?
—Aristophanes, 423 BC
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One may like the love and despise the lover.
—George Farquhar, 1706Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
—Florence King, 1989Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea. It is down there that the sea folk live.
—Hans Christian Andersen, 1837In dealing with the dead, if we treat them as if they were entirely dead, that would show a want of affection and should not be done; or, if we treat them as if they were entirely alive, that would show a want of wisdom and should not be done.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCIt is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
—The BibleA broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1871To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
—William Hazlitt, 1823The earth is our existence, and our body is attached to the earth.
—Daulat Qazi, c. 1650I love everyone now that I have gray hair.
—Polatkin, c. 1855The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
—Bertrand Russell, 1938Seamen are the nearest to death and the furthest from God.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732