A friend in power is a friend lost.
—Henry Adams, 1905
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While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1983Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
—Anatole France, 1881The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.
—Théophile Gautier, c. 1835Conjecturing a Climate
Of unsuspended Suns –
Adds poignancy to Winter
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can’t think of anything else to do.
—W.H. Auden, 1946One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
—Julia Child, 2001“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
—George Eliot, 1866Wit enables us to act rudely with impunity.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678Drink today and drown all sorrow; / You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.
—John Fletcher, 1625My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968The fox knows lots of tricks, the hedgehog only one—but it’s a winner.
—Archilochus, c. 650 BCMen are merriest when they are from home.
—William Shakespeare, 1599