Happiness is a warm puppy.
—Charles Schulz, 1971
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All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.
—Max Born, 1968Iron may break gold, but water remains whole.
—Ge Hong, c. 300Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body, to try the manners of different nations, to hear the chimes at midnight.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881Journalists belong in the gutter, because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.
—Gerald Priestland, 1988People revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.
—Robert Byrd, 2005For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy.
—George Eliot, 1844Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.
—Groucho Marx, 1959There’s folks ’ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.
—George Eliot, 1859Shamelessness is the shame of being without shame.
—Mencius, c. 290 BCThere is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
—John Locke, 1689