To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. George Orwell
English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) Why should I do anything for posterity? What has posterity ever done for me? Groucho Marx
US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 - 1977) In a minute there is time for decision and revisions that a minute will reverse. T. S. Eliot
British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet (1888 - 1965) Nobody picks on a strong man. Charles Atlas It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading People. Horace Greeley I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual. Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922
English novelist (1882 - 1941) The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. John Berry, Flight of White Crows A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. Chinese Proverb There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. Robert Lynd, The Blue Lion and Other Essays
US sociologist (1892 - 1970) God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien | 
