The art of invention grows young with the things invented.
—Francis Bacon, 1605
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Money is a language for translating the work of the farmer into the work of the barber, doctor, engineer, or plumber.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1964The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo, 2001There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Strangers are an endangered species.
—Adrienne Rich, 1980Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.
—Anthony Burgess, 1972The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.
—Édouard Manet, c. 1860Seek not water, only show you are thirsty, / That water may spring up all around you.
—Rumi, c. 1260Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100True friendship withstands time, distance, and silence.
—Isabel Allende, 2000Water its living strength first shows, / When obstacles its course oppose.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1815There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
—Mark Twain, 1876