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Aesop
-620 - -564Please all, and you will please none.
Agatha Christie
1890 - 1976I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness...
Alan Alexander Milne
1882 - 1956Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday.
Albert Camus
1913 - 1960Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Aldous Huxley
1894 - 1963Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
Allen Ginsberg
1926 - 1997The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1900 - 1944Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Ba Jin
1904 - 2005The one who does not understand life cannot understand death.
C.S. Lewis
1898 - 1963You can make anything by writing.
Charles Dickens
1812 - 1870No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Chinua Achebe
1930 - 2013When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brough...
Edgar Allan Poe
1809 - 1849All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Eileen Chang
1920 - 1995To find reality, one must forget fiction.
Emily Dickinson
1830 - 1886Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.
Ernest Hemingway
1899 - 1961Courage is grace under pressure.