People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing’s as eternal as the dishes.
—Margaret Mahy, 1985
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I went [to war] because I couldn’t help it. I didn’t want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.
—Louisa May Alcott, 1863All of the great musicians have borrowed from the songs of the common people.
—Antonín Dvořák, 1893For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813Modesty is a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Epitaph, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906There’s hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
—Aldous Huxley, 1934There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.
—Mark Twain, 1897Every country has the government it deserves.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1811The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.
—Hunter S. Thompson, 1971To live outside the law you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966