As matron and mistress will differ in temper and tone, so will the friend be distinct from the faithless parasite.
—Horace, c. 20 BC
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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa, c. 1975If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.
—Hunter S. Thompson, 1971To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.
—Charles Lamb, 1833Suffering has its limit, but fears are endless.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 108Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
—Agnes Repplier, 1916If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better I should not have come.
—Raymond Chandler, 1945In time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.
—Novalis, c. 1798The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.
—David Hume, 1742In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
—Voltaire, 1764