If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003
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We do not suffer by accident.
—Jane Austen, 1813With the dead there is no rivalry.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1839Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1819At the start there’s always energy.
—Suzan-Lori Parks, 2006This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
—Horace, c. 35 BCMemories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.
—Harriet Doerr, 1978To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma.
—Gretel Ehrlich, 1994The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
—Plato, c. 375 BCEpitaph, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.
—George Herbert, 1651We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.
—Winston Churchill, 1948Rewards and punishment are the lowest form of education.
—Zhuangzi, c. 286 BC