Enemies are so stimulating.
—Katharine Hepburn, 1969
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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
—Tennessee Williams, 1951Dance tunes are always right.
—Dylan Thomas, 1936If I played in New York, they’d name a candy bar after me.
—Reggie Jackson, 1976The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Revolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCToo often, where we need water we find guns.
—Ban Ki-moon, 2008Memory is necessary for all operations of reasoning.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1658Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It’s the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.
—John Ruskin, 1850Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1886