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When 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. 1955

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1746

This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.

—Tony Blair, 2006

Today’s friend may be tomorrow’s foe.

—Sophocles, 440 BC

Jesters do oft prove prophets.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1605

A friend in power is a friend lost.

—Henry Adams, 1905

What touches all shall be approved by all.

—Edward I, 1295

People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.

—Bayard Rustin, 1986

Do not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.

—Romalyn Ante, 2020

There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.

—Karl Kraus, 1909

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870

How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!

—Anthony Trollope, 1859

Man is merely a more perfect animal than the rest. He reasons better.

—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1816