"Life is half spent before we know what it is " — George Herbert

Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

I think, therefore I am.

Source: A Discourse on Method (1637), Part IV

Lost time is never found again

Source: The Way to Wealth (1758)

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay

Source: Paracelsus (1835)

If you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them.

Source: Sense and Sensibility (1811)

Peace: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

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