1036. Never

«Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.»

Josh Billings, 1865.

1022. Índio

«We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, the winding streams with tangled growth, as 'wild'. Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness' and only to him was it 'infested' with 'wild' animals and 'savage' people. To us it was tame. Earth was bountiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery.»

Luther Standing Bear (1868-1939)

1020. Liberdade

«La liberté n'est ni une invention juridique ni un trésor philosophique, propriété chérie de civilisations plus dignes que d'autres parce qu'elles seules sauraient la produire ou la préserver. Elle résulte d'une relation objective entre l'individu et l'espace qu'il occupe, entre le consommateur et les ressources dont il dispose.»

Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955.

992. Nobel

«One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter: “Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.”»

John Steinbeck, 1956.

950. Razão

«The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.»

George Bernard Shaw.

938. Os dias

«Commuter — one who spends his life
In riding to and from his wife;
A man who shaves and takes a train
And then rides back to shave again.»

E.B. White, The Lady is Cold, 1929.

880. Jornal

«A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.»

Arthur Miller, 1961

878. Experiência

«Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.»

Francis Bacon

746. Casa

«I have heard of a man who had a mind to sell his house, and therefore carried a piece of brick in his pocket, which he showed as a pattern to encourage purchasers.»

Jonathan Swift, 1725.

686. Ovo

«It has, I believe, been often remarked that a hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.»

Samuel Butler, 1877.

576. Nobel

«I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all. It is in fact mandatory. If such a determination is not embodied in our political vision we have no hope of restoring what is so nearly lost to us — the dignity of man.»
Harold Pinter, 2005.

574. Deus

«If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.»
Thomas Guthrie, 1865

157. Vinegar Hill

«He cannot bear the thought of anything happening to either of them. Sometimes, when he sees them watching TV, or sleeping, or playing quietly at some game, he imagines their frail skeletons beneath their skin and is seized by the sudden fear that they will die. One slight bump, one false step, the screech of a car or the thud of a falling tree branch - this is all it would take. If it happens, when it happens, he doesn't know what he will do.»

Manette Ansay, Vinegar Hill.