Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings.
—Anna Quindlen, 2012
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The mill will never grind with water that is past.
—Daniel McCallum, 1870The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized as their right when they act in community. Religious communities are a requirement of the social nature both of man and of religion itself.
—Pope Paul VI, 1965The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of bourgeois stupidity.
—Gustave Flaubert, 1871Nature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.
—Lucretius, c. 57 BCBad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
—Socrates, c. 430 BCDrunkenness is the very sepulcher / Of man’s wit and his discretion.
—Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1390The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
—Joshua Slocum, 1900If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.
—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927Nobody, sir, dies willingly.
—Antiphanes, c. 370 BCFriendship is a plant that loves the sun—thrives ill under clouds.
—Bronson Alcott, 1872He who laugheth too much, hath the nature of a fool; he that laugheth not at all, hath the nature of an old cat.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732