Now there is fame! Of all—hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public—fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation by God of the artist. It is sad. It is true.
—Pablo Picasso, c. 1961
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
—Abraham Lincoln, 1861Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
—August Strindberg, 1886I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.
—Herman Melville, 1853To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943The law is established from above but becomes custom below.
—Su Zhe, c. 1100Some nights are like honey—and some like wine—and some like wormwood.
—L.M. Montgomery, 1927Most men employ the first years of their life in making the last miserable.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1819I think that to get under the surface and really appreciate the beauty of any country, one has to go there poor.
—Grace Moore, 1944Avoid the talk of men. For talk is mischievous, light, and easily raised, but hard to bear and difficult to be rid of. Talk never wholly dies away when many people voice her: even talk is in some ways divine.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCComedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
—Marty Feldman, 1969