A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1732
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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.
—Henry Miller, 1945I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?
—Andy Warhol, 1963How sad a sight is human happiness to those whose thoughts can pierce beyond an hour!
—Edward Young, 1741Some things are privileged from jest—namely, religion, matters of state, great persons, all men’s present business of importance, and any case that deserves pity.
—Francis Bacon, 1597Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
—André Gide, 1897There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.
—Sylvia Alice Earle, 1995Our entire history is merely the history of the waking life of man; nobody has yet considered the history of his sleeping life.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, c. 1780So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, c. 1950My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
—Tecumseh, 1810It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987I think we are inexterminable, like flies and bedbugs.
—Robert Frost, 1959