“A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.”
“It is not a very interesting night market, anyway. No wonderful things are sold there, though often one wonders, next day, how one could have bought them…”
Vergil in Averno (1987)
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novelist 1923–1993Related quotes
From his 1971 World Series MVP acceptance speech, discussing his sometimes strained relationship with manager Danny Murtaugh, as quoted in "Pittsburgh's Clemente Honored"
Baseball-related, <big><big>1970s</big></big>, <big>1971</big>
“This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.”
“[F]inancial markets can be considered one of the great wonders of the world.”
On Money and Markets (2000)
“Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.”
Letter to California student E. Holzapfel (March 1951) Einstein Archive 59-1013, p. 57
Attributed in posthumous publications, Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
“Cato the elder wondered how that city was preserved wherein a fish was sold for more than an ox.”
Cato the Elder
Roman Apophthegms