"It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all."
Heinrich Heine
"War is sweet to those who have not experienced it."
Anonymous
"It was not long before I discovered that withdrawing addicts lost their composure in exactly the same manner that careless millionaires lose their money: gradually, then suddenly."
Andrew Davidson
"Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words."
Dejan Stojanovic
"Without living the most chaotic internal storms, you can’t get the calmness of the wisdom! Wisdom is the child of the storm."
Mehmet Murat ildan
"An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed."
A. J. Liebling
"Surprising choice proves hardest to come by. Most choices, even the disastrous ones, are predictable."
Carrie Snyder
"A writer leads a hyphenated-life with words."
Munia Khan
"As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage."
Anonymous
"The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poetry is an instance of what I mean. We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it."
Anonymous
"Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me."
Charles Keating
"Why am I the only one who thinks she’s messing with us? - Egg."
Jamie Scallion
"I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man."
Primo Levi
"The trick to being smart is knowing when to play dumb."
V. Alexander
"On a cooler sun on a primordial earth: 'I later learned that biologists, when they are feeling jocose, refer to this as the 'Chinese Resaturant Problem'--because we has a dim sun."
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