“All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
IV, 44
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV
Letter to Charles Lamb (1826)
Letters
“All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
IV, 44
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV
“There is no price set on the lavish summer,
And June may be had by the poorest comer.”
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
Prelude to Pt. I, st. 3
The Vision of Sir Launfal (1848)
Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy
Remark during testimony of Floyd McKissick before a Senate subcommittee of which Kennedy was a member (December 8, 1966); reported in Federal Role in Urban Affairs, hearings before the Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization of the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate, 89th Congress, 2d session, part 11, p. 2312 (1967)
“Every man has his own reason for every deed. Usually it is selfish.”
David Gemmell book Quest for Lost Heroes
Source: Drenai series, Quest for Lost Heroes, Ch. 10
“A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.”
Wilson Mizner (1876–1933) American writer
"Maxims Old and New", All of a Piece: New Essays https://books.google.com/books?id=4vEQAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22A+fellow+who+is+always+declaring+he%27s+no+fool+usually+has+his+suspicions.%22 (1937), edited by Edward Verrall Lucas, p. 52. <br class="br">Epigrams
Robert Barro (1944) American classical macroeconomist
Source: Nothing Is Sacred (2002), p. 33
John Perry Barlow (1947–2018) American poet and essayist
On The International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism, and Security - Personal blog http://barlow.typepad.com/ from Madrid, Spain (10 March 2005)