A dead enemy always smells good.
—Aulus Vitellius, 69
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Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, c. 1940Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8Hunting is all that’s worth living for—all time is lost what is not spent in hunting—it is like the air we breathe—if we have it not we die—it’s the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt.
—Robert Smith Surtees, 1843Music today is nothing more than the art of performing difficult pieces.
—Voltaire, 1759The bathing was so delightful this morning, and Molly so pressing with me to enjoy myself, that I believe I stayed in rather too long, as since the middle of the day I have felt unreasonably tired. I shall be more careful another time, and shall not bathe tomorrow as I had before intended.
—Jane Austen, 1804When I do a show, the whole show revolves around me, and if I don’t show up, they can just forget it.
—Ethel Merman, c. 1955God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
—J.M. Barrie, 1922Too often, where we need water we find guns.
—Ban Ki-moon, 2008It is permitted to learn even from an enemy.
—Ovid, c. 8Do not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.
—Romalyn Ante, 2020A sick child is always the mother’s property; her own feelings generally make it so.
—Jane Austen, 1816