“America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks”
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“America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks”
“Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable”
“Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay”
“I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time. ”
“The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also”
“The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler”
“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins”
“Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth”
“Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself”
“And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.”
“Remember that lost time does not return.”
“When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.”
“The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship”
“An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return”
“Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones”
“Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time”
“We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again”
“For every 60 seconds of anger, you lose one minute of happiness”
“In sorrow he learned this truth: Though one may return to the place of his birth, he cannot go back to his youth”
“Life is a predicament which precedes death.”