I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844
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New things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953Don’t ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.
—Colette, 1944He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
—Molière, 1666Music today is nothing more than the art of performing difficult pieces.
—Voltaire, 1759Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1886Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.
—Charles Lamb, 1810Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947So many men, so many opinions.
—Terence, 161 BCThe gratitude is greater than the gift.
—Pierre Corneille, 1641The fox knows lots of tricks, the hedgehog only one—but it’s a winner.
—Archilochus, c. 650 BCThe poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.
—Francis Bacon, 1605