To live outside the law you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966
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In 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 BCA broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732The young man must store up, the old man must use.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 63There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
—Kathleen Norris, 1931Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
—Ian Dury, 1977Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions, as it were, by the way, in the course of their everyday life.
—Elizabeth Charles, 1862Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Conservation is not merely a thing to be enshrined in outdoor museums, but a way of living on land.
—Aldo Leopold, 1933Water is the first principle of everything.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 600 BCFormula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
—J. Paul GettyStrength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733A monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 109