Quotes

I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.

—Marilyn Monroe, 1962

To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.

—Seneca the Younger, c. 45

We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

—D.H. Lawrence, 1928

That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.

—Willa Cather, 1918

Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.

—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960

If you have any soul worth expressing, it will show itself in your singing.

—John Ruskin, 1865

Better a thousand enemies outside the house than one inside.

—Arabic proverb

One of the things men should most strive to do is win a good reputation and see that no one questions it.

—Juan Manuel, 1335

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

—E.B. White, 1977

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.

—André Gide, 1897

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

—Susanne K. Langer, 1962

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

—Dorothy Parker

Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.

—Jacob Burckhardt, c. 1875

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