We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1928
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To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
—Samuel Johnson, c. 1770To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891I live by good soup, and not on fine language.
—Molière, 1672Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?
—Brooks Atkinson, 1940The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
—Saint Augustine, c. 390Nature never jests.
—Albrecht von Haller, 1751Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
—Arthur Wellesley, c. 1830When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957To be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold office.
—Quintus Fabius Maximus, c. 203 BCJust as language no longer has anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.
—Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
—Helen Keller, 1936