Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962
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Well now, there’s a remedy for everything except death.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605Childhood has no forebodings—but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
—George Eliot, 1860Put national causes first and personal grudges last.
—Sima Qian, c. 91 BCIn the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
—Voltaire, 1764Wherever commerce prevails there will be an inequality of wealth, and wherever the latter does a simplicity of manners must decline.
—James Madison, 1783There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891The United States has virtually set up an empire on impounded and redistributed water.
—Charles P. Berkey, 1946The day unravels what the night has woven.
—Walter Benjamin, 1929Lord, I do not ask that thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1898Men are generally more pleased with a widespread than with a great reputation.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 110A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
—James Joyce, 1922The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1919