Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911
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And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1954Is all our fire of shipwreck wood?
—Robert Browning, 1862In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1908You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
—Cormac McCarthy, 2005Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
—Sammy Davis Jr., 1965The deed is everything, the glory naught.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
—Socrates, c. 430 BCLanguage ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
—George Orwell, 1944I cannot bear a parent’s tears.
—Virgil, c. 25 BCNature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500