Memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.
—Harriet Doerr, 1978
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All pain is one malady with many names.
—Antiphanes, c. 400 BCMake the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.
—Edmund Burke, 1790And, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but the truth in masquerade.
—Lord Byron, 1822My people and I have come to an agreement that satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.
—Frederick the Great, c. 1770It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street.
—Mary Lease, c. 1890Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with the necessities.
—John Lothrop Motley, 1858A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1852Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, c. 45 BCThe envious die not once, but as often as the envied win applause.
—Baltasar Gracián, 1647One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895Each night’s new terror drives away the terror of the night before.
—Sophocles, c. 450 BCI said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?”
—Book of Ecclesiastes, 225 BC