The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
—Myrtle Reed, 1910
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Now there is fame! Of all—hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public—fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation by God of the artist. It is sad. It is true.
—Pablo Picasso, c. 1961All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1978The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. We go on a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences—to leave ourselves behind, much more to get rid of others.
—William Hazlitt, 1822Why has the government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1833At the start there’s always energy.
—Suzan-Lori Parks, 2006Memories are hunting horns
whose noise dies away in the wind.
Whole nations have melted away like balls of snow before the sun.
—Dragging Canoe, 1775Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it—have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.
—James Russell Lowell, 1884For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733And, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but the truth in masquerade.
—Lord Byron, 1822