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  • (Brazil:) I’ve never beheld such a paradise. The people are enchanting and—a mercy on this... More
  • (Heinrich von) Kleist would not be a Prussian if his first thought would not have been... More
  • ... So damn your food and damn your wines,
    Your twisted loaves and twisting vines,
    Your... More
  • A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. More
  • A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance. More
  • A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography. More
  • A body of work such as Pasteur’s is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance... More
  • A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man. More
  • A child is born with the potential ability to learn Chinese or Swahili, play a kazoo, climb a... More
  • A child is more than the sum of her parts. So are you What you feel about life, about each other,... More
  • A child is nothing like a racing car. . . . Souping up babies doesn’t work that way. The child... More
  • A child is sleeping:
    An old man gone.
    O father forsaken,
    Forgive your son! More
  • A child of three cannot raise its chubby fist to its mouth to remove a piece of carpet which it... More
  • A clear and ancient harmony
    Pierces my soul through all its din,
    As through its utmost... More
  • A closed mouth catches no flies. More
  • A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good... More
  • A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium... More
  • A couple’s relationship often moves to the back burner as they focus on the new baby and... More
  • A Curate there is something which excites compassion in the very name of a curate!!! More
  • A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo. More
  • A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who’s allowed to sit down occasionally. More
  • A drug is neither moral nor immoral—it’s a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a... More
  • A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject. More
  • A father’s pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least... More
  • A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart’s desire! More
  • A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman’s neck: it endears her to the men who want... More
  • A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume... More
  • A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his... More
  • A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly... More
  • A graceful bearing is to the body what good sense is to the mind. More
  • A great calamity ... is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. More
  • A great deal of unnecessary worry is indulged in by theatregoers trying to understand what... More
  • A great many men’s gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses... More
  • A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a... More
  • A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. More
  • A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who... More
  • A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards. More
  • A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy... More
  • A journalist is stimulated by a deadline. He writes worse when he has time. More
  • A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners. More
  • A little neglect may breed mischief ... for want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe... More
  • A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our... More
  • A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills... More
  • A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self—in the mirror of some... More
  • A man is never as fortunate—or as unfortunate—as he imagines. More
  • A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good... More
  • A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have. More
  • A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others. More
  • A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived. More
  • A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. More
  • A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he... More
  • A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him. More
  • A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it. More
  • A man often thinks he rules himself, when all the while he is ruled and managed; and while his... More
  • A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them... More
  • A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature. More
  • A man’s jealousy is a social institution; a woman’s prostitution is an instinct. More
  • A man’s wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at... More
  • A man’s worth has its season, like fruit. More
  • A million surplus Maggies are willing to bear the yoke;
    And a woman is only a woman, but a... More
  • A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigour of a man, who... More
  • A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won’t bore him. An artist finds... More
  • A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the... More
  • A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an... More
  • A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times. More
  • A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the... More
  • A poem is good until one knows by whom it is. More
  • A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and... More
  • A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by... More
  • A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness... More
  • A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is... More
  • A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo. More
  • A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly. More
  • A rocket is a reed that thinks brilliantly. More
  • A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation. More
  • A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn’t. More
  • A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine. More
  • A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory.... From Stettin in... More
  • A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good. More
  • A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a wind-mill, a winnowing flail, the... More
  • A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. More
  • A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards. More
  • A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend. More
  • A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency. More
  • A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is... More
  • A woman can look both moral and exciting—if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle. More
  • A woman might claim to retain some of the child’s faculties, although very limited and defused,... More
  • A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men. More
  • A woman’s asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person’s demanding... More
  • Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles,... More
  • According to Father’s lexicon people who started on a job and didn’t stay at it for 50 years... More
  • Adolescents may be, almost simultaneously, overconfident and riddled with fear. They are afraid... More
  • Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture. More
  • After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers... More
  • After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called... More
  • Again and again, faith in a possible satisfaction of the human race breaks through at the very... More
  • Against my will, I became a witness to the most terrible defeat of reason and to the most savage... More
  • AIDS was ... an illness in stages, a very long flight of steps that led assuredly to death, but... More
  • Alas for those two loving ones! she waked not from her swound,
    And he was taken with the... More
  • Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has... More
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