All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BC
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As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbWhen we define democracy now, it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
—Pearl S. Buck, 1941Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.
—Sarah Bernhardt, 1904I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.
—Catherine the Great, c. 1796Doing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
—Roger Ebert, 1998Ah, there are no children nowadays.
—Molière, 1673There is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, c. 1940That obtained in youth may endure like characters engraved in stones.
—Ibn Gabirol, 1040Style is the image of character.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1789A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773I had rather be in a state of misery and envied for my supposed happiness than in a state of happiness and pitied for my supposed misery.
—Elizabeth Inchbald, 1793