Reputation, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
—Douglas Jerrold, 1840
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1977In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1864Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan, 1943I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music.
—Giuseppe Verdi, 1900No nation was ever ruined by trade.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1774A traveler’s chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad—as well as good—example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.
—Jonathan Swift, 1726To be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold office.
—Quintus Fabius Maximus, c. 203 BCThere are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
—Madame de Sévigné, 1671Drive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back.
—Horace, c. 25 BCTo hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 45Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
—Henry Kissinger, 1972No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
—Abraham Lincoln