If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981
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To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688The sadness of the end of a career of an older athlete, with the betrayal of his body, is mirrored in the rest of us. Consciously or not, we know: there, soon, go I.
—Ira Berkow, 1987Some nights are like honey—and some like wine—and some like wormwood.
—L.M. Montgomery, 1927The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
—Yves Saint Laurent, 1978From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60An ape will be an ape, though clad in purple.
—Erasmus, 1511Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
—Thomas Mann, 1924If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949Though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.
—Bion of Smyrna, c. 100 BCAlone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798