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
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An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1746This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.
—Tony Blair, 2006Today’s friend may be tomorrow’s foe.
—Sophocles, 440 BCJesters do oft prove prophets.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1605A friend in power is a friend lost.
—Henry Adams, 1905What touches all shall be approved by all.
—Edward I, 1295People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.
—Bayard Rustin, 1986Do not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.
—Romalyn Ante, 2020There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.
—Karl Kraus, 1909The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!
—Anthony Trollope, 1859Man is merely a more perfect animal than the rest. He reasons better.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1816