There’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!
—Rachel Field, 1939
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When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
—Alice Hegan Rice, 1917To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbIt is He who has subdued the ocean so that you may eat of its fresh fish and bring up from its depth ornaments to wear. Behold the ships plowing their course through it. All this, that you may seek His bounty and render thanks.
—The Qur’an, c. 625What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807Every house: temple, empire, school.
—Joseph Joubert, 1800If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
—Charles M. Allen, 1967The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.
—Herman Melville, 1853Friendship is a plant that loves the sun—thrives ill under clouds.
—Bronson Alcott, 1872My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
—Tecumseh, 1810There is no profit without another’s loss.
—Roman proverbBy nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
—Confucius, c. 500 BC