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Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.Richard Lovelace, To Althea from Prison
Streets full of water; please advise.Robert Benchley
That ready wit, which you so partially allow me, ... may create many admirers; but, take my word for it, it makes few friends. It shines and dazzles like the noonday sun, but, like that, too, it is very apt to scorch, and therefore is always feared. The milder morning and evening light and heat of that planet soothe and calm our minds. Never seek for wit; if it present itself, well and good; but even then, let your judgement interpose, and take care that it be not at the expense of anybody.Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of Chesterfield, 1749
... Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis"
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 3, 1887.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.Albert Einstein
Our love is God. Lets go grab a slushie.J.D., "Heathers"
The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.G. K. Chesterton, The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown
Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.Sir Francis Bacon
It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.Samuel Butler