Gossip isn’t scandal and it’s not merely malicious. It’s chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
—Phyllis McGinley, 1957
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The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.
—Catherine the Great, c. 1796Language is the archives of history.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732It costs a lot to make a person look this cheap.
—Dolly Parton, 1994Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.
Music today is nothing more than the art of performing difficult pieces.
—Voltaire, 1759Revolutions never go backward.
—Thomas Skidmore, 1829A monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 109Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!
—Anthony Trollope, 1859An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
—Plato, c. 360 BC