Bartolomeo Bimbi, “Two-Headed Lamb” (1721), oil on canvas, 58 x 72 cm. Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence (Image via Web Gallery of Art)
“Driven by fears that an aging population could jeopardize China’s economic ascent,” writes Chris Buckley in The New York Times, “the Communist Party leadership ended its decades-old ‘one child’ policy on Thursday, announcing that all married couples would be allowed to have two children.”
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
—Joyce Carey
There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by one’s own industry, or by the stupidity of others.
—Jean de la Bruyere
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
—Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
—Albert Schweitzer
There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
—Genesis 7:9 (KJV)
Four legs good, two legs bad.
—George Orwell, Animal Farm
Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
—Henny Youngman
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
—Ayn Rand
Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.
—Emma Goldman
There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
—Frida Kahlo
Personally, I like two types of men – domestic and foreign.
—Mae West
Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that’s not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.
—Lance Armstrong
When the train, it left the station
with two lights on behind
When the train, it left the station
with two lights on behind
Well, the blue light was my blues
and the red light was my mind.—Robert Johnson, “Love in Vain”
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs. Carlyle marry one another so as to make only two people miserable instead of four.
—Samuel Butler, letter to Miss E. M. A. Savage
