Deals Quote by Thomas Browne

You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that…

— George Eliot

“Harness the imagination: Sometimes curbing her, sometimes giving her rein, for she is the whole of happiness. She sets to rights even the understanding.…

— Baltasar Gracián

“...she felt in her mind the consciousness that she was entitled to hold a higher rank from her merit, than the arbitrary despotism of…

— Walter Scott

Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.

— George Sand

Seeking relief through forgetfulleness, the pursuit of oblivion.

— Anonymous

A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to…

— Samuel Johnson

“The brevity of life, the failing of the senses, the numbness of indifference and unprofitable occupations allow us to know very little. And again…

— Nicholas Copernicus

“Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives, dares now to vindicate them, let not prejudice, nor ignorance,…

— Gretta Curran Browne

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

— Antoine Rivarol

“There must always remain, however, from the standpoint of normal waking consciousness, a certain baffling inconsistency between the wisdom brought forth from the deep,…

— Joseph Campbell

“She alone was left standing, amid the accumulated riches of her mansion, while a host of men lay stricken at her feet. Like those…

— Emile Zola

Either to die the death or to abjure For ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires; Know of your youth,…

— William Shakespeare