Quotes

I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.

—William Shakespeare, c. 1595

We are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repair.

—Samuel Pepys, 1661

Two crimes undid me: a poem and a mistake.

—Ovid, 10

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing—the rest is mere sheep herding.

—Ezra Pound, 1934

Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.

—Book of Job, c. 600 BC

All the daughters of music shall be brought low.

—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BC

The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.

—Horace, c. 25 BC

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

—Mario Cuomo, 1985

He who sings frightens away his ills.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

The god of music dwelleth out of doors.

—Edith M. Thomas, 1887

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936

If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.

—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1843

I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.

—Zsa Zsa Gabor

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