Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.
—Ben Jonson, 1601
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Egypt was the mother of magicians.
—Clement of Alexandria, c. 200Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
—Barbara Walters, 1975To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
—Jean Genet, 1949Those who are awake have a world that is one and common, but each of those who are asleep turns aside into his own particular world.
—Heraclitus, c. 500 BCIt seems to me that we all look at nature too much and live with her too little.
—Oscar Wilde, 1897Fear is a poor guarantor of a long life.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
—Calvin Coolidge, 1932Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
—Mark Twain, 1894Let us make our own mistakes, but let us take comfort in the knowledge that they are our own mistakes.
—Tom Mboya, 1958Night affords the most convenient shade for works of darkness.
—John Taylor, 1750Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938