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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make… — Wystan Hugh Auden
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new… — Wystan Hugh Auden
My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain. — Wystan Hugh Auden
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. — Wystan Hugh Auden
When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. — Wystan Hugh Auden
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. — Red Auerbach
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. — Norman Ralph Augustine
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has… — Saint Augustine
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. — Saint Augustine
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some… — Saint Augustine
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but… — Saint Augustine
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. — Marcus Aurelius
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. — Marcus Aurelius
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. — Marcus Aurelius
Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle. — Marcus Aurelius

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