A friend who is very near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
—George Ade, 1902
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One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.
—Édouard Manet, c. 1860If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry to equanimity, receptivity, and peace is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal center of energy.
—William James, 1902What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
—Henry Adams, 1907A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
—Jane Austen, 1814In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, 52 BCSex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. I think that the worst thing you could say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever. After all, you know, there are worse things in life than death.
—Woody Allen, 1975If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886