A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.
—Pericles, c. 450 BC
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O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596Years are nothing to me—they should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or to consider them? In the world of wild nature, time is measured by seasons only—the bird does not know how old it is—the rose tree does not count its birthdays!
—Marie Corelli, 1911Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCDemocracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.
—Veronica Wedgwood, 1946Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant, democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.
—Euripides, c. 425 BCThe Mediterranean has the colors of a mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet—you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing light has taken on a tinge of pink or gray.
—Vincent van Gogh, 1888My 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. 1770There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665Is this dying? Is this all? Is this all that I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear it!
—Cotton Mather, 1728History in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another.
—Ellsworth Huntington, 1919