Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
—G.C. Lichtenberg, c. 1780
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In life our absent friend is far away: / But death may bring our friend exceeding near.
—Christina Rossetti, 1881Best is water.
—Pindar, 476 BCAlmsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.
—Eva Perón, 1949Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCWhat does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1850Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
—George Washington, 1783To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion—a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge. One may have that condition by fits only.
—George Eliot, c. 1872And then, sir, there is this consideration: that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up and, claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
—Samuel Johnson, 1791Colonialism has meant selling our ore and being left with the holes.
—Samora Moisés Machel, c. 1976If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1871These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908