
“You can never be wise unless you love reading.”
Source: Life of Johnson, Vol 4
A Woman's Shortcomings http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning/14908, st. 5 (1850).
Context: Unless you can muse in a crowd all day
On the absent face that fixed you;
Unless you can love, as the angels may,
With the breadth of heaven betwixt you;
Unless you can dream that his faith is fast,
Through behoving and unbehoving;
Unless you can die when the dream is past —
Oh, never call it loving!
“You can never be wise unless you love reading.”
Source: Life of Johnson, Vol 4
Song: Oh never another dream can be
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
“You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly.”
Source: Black Blood
Who You Love, written by Jihn Mayer and Katy Perry
Song lyrics, Paradise Valley (2013)
“Unless you can change the past, you’re wasting the present on this guilt”
Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
“Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.”