A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.
—George Mikes, 1946
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Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth. Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
—Julie Burchill, 1986Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
—William Morris, 1882Water its living strength first shows, / When obstacles its course oppose.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1815Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.
—David Riesman, 1937None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
—Pearl S. Buck, 1943The planet keeps to the astronomer’s timetable, but the wind still bloweth almost where it listeth.
—John Henry Poynting, 1899Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872A woman should never be seen eating or drinking unless it be lobster salad and champagne, the only truly feminine and becoming viands.
—Lord Byron, 1812Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.
—Carl Sandburg, 1936Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
—Thucydides, 410 BC