People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing’s as eternal as the dishes.
—Margaret Mahy, 1985
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can’t think of anything else to do.
—W.H. Auden, 1946Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
—Alexander Pope, 1709All revolutions devour their own children.
—Ernst Röhm, 1933Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
—Socrates, c. 430 BCLanguage ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
—George Orwell, 1944It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987Nature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCAnd, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but the truth in masquerade.
—Lord Byron, 1822I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1807Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.
—John Wilkes Booth, 1865What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
—Erasmus, 1515Youth, youth, springtime of beauty.
—Anthem of the National Fascist Party, c. 1924