Edith Sitwell

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”

“It is the historian’s function, not to make us clever for the next time, but to make us wise forever.”

– Jacob Burckhardt (a Swiss historian of art and culture and an influential figure in the historiography of both fields)

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

– Aristotle (a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period)

“What you know, you know; what you don’t know, you don’t know. This is true wisdom.”

– Confucius (a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the 6th-5th centuries BC

“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”

– Agatha Christie (an English writer)

“Never eat more than you can lift”

– Porcine star of stage and screen