The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983
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No poems can please long, nor live, that are written by water drinkers.
—Horace, 35 BCI would delight in music, but the music is discordant.
—Xie Lingyun, c. 425Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
—H.L. Mencken, 1919Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
—Ian Dury, 1977Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.
—Voltaire, 1764If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better I should not have come.
—Raymond Chandler, 1945Exchange is no robbery.
—German proverbDon’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.
—Henry Clay, 1842The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
—Anna Jameson, 1846The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa, c. 1975