A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1852
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Vox populi, vox humbug.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
—George Sand, 1851Most men employ the first years of their life in making the last miserable.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825Childhood knows what it wants—to leave childhood behind.
—Jean Cocteau, 1947Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.
—E.M. Forster, 1910Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation.
—Oliver Sacks, 2012What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.
—William Randolph Hearst, 1898Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
—Sammy Davis Jr., 1965Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
—Agnes Repplier, 1916