The first mistake of art is to assume that it’s serious.
—Lester Bangs, 1971
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Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.
—Euripides, c. 425 BCNight affords the most convenient shade for works of darkness.
—John Taylor, 1750Strangers are an endangered species.
—Adrienne Rich, 1980Ocean. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man—who has no gills.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 43 BCMedication alone is not to be relied on. In one half the cases medicine is not needed, or is worse than useless. Obedience to spiritual and physical laws—hygiene of the body and hygiene of the spirit—is the surest warrant for health and happiness.
—Harriot K. Hunt, 1856The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
—Bertrand Russell, 1938These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1850All the married heiresses I have known have shipwrecked.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time’s carcass.
—Karl Marx, 1847I proclaim night more truthful than the day.
—Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1956