Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture, to us, and a mirror.
—Alain de Lille, c. 1200
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Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
—Voltaire, 1770If I had been born a man, I would have conquered Europe. As I was born a woman, I exhausted my energy in tirades against fate and in eccentricities.
—Marie Bashkirtseff, 1884Memory is more indelible than ink.
—Anita Loos, 1974Childhood has no forebodings—but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
—George Eliot, 1860Hang work! I wish that all the year were holiday; I am sure that Indolence—indefeasible Indolence—is the true state of man.
—Charles Lamb, 1805It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
—Friedrich Schiller, 1781A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on nonalcoholic wine.
—Karl Kraus, 1909Everyone lives by selling something.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1892Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889A person who sees only fashion in fashion is a fool.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1830It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.
—Francis Bacon, 1620Unfortunately, humanitarianism has been the mark of an inhuman time.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1932