Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.
—Virginia Woolf, 1899
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Education—a debt due from present to future generations.
—George Peabody, 1852A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
—Aldous Huxley, 1934All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.
—James Joyce, 1939People living deeply have no fear of death.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957I do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
—Pliny the Elder, c. 77Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water.
—Zadie Smith, 2000Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BCThe populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
—Horace, c. 25 BCThe law looks at no one’s face.
—Gabriel Okara, 1964If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951