I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.
—Groucho Marx, 1959
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Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BCFor everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCTime rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
—Tennessee Williams, 1951Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
—Paul Valéry, 1943Till taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.
—Lord Byron, 1819I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844A change in the weather is sufficient to create the world and oneself anew.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1920We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
—Florence King, 1989Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.
—Rudy Giuliani, 1999Memory is like the moon, which hath its new, its full, and its wane.
—Margaret Cavendish, 1655There is a time to battle against nature, and a time to obey her. True wisdom lies in making the right choice.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1979