The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
—Yves Saint Laurent, 1978
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Whole nations have melted away like balls of snow before the sun.
—Dragging Canoe, 1775Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Do you not see how God is praised by those in the heavens and those on earth? The very birds praised Him as they wing their way.
—The Qur’an, c. 620They exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home.
—Virgil, c. 30 BCIt was lonesome, the leaving.
—Wetatonmi, c. 1877The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
—Galen, c. 175Punishment is a sort of medicine.
—Aristotle, c. 340 BCDeath keeps no calendar.
—George Herbert, 1640’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595Exchange is no robbery.
—German proverbIf the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, c. 1513In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
—Herodotus, 440 BC