Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.
—Euripides, c. 425 BC
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Does anybody really want to attend to cities other than to flee, fleece, privatize, butcher, or decimate them?
—Jane Holtz Kay, 1992Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
—Samuel Johnson, 1771Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.
—George Gershwin, 1933There is no profit without another’s loss.
—Roman proverbOur nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640There is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCNo man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
—Samuel Johnson, 1776This is Year Zero.
—Pol Pot, 1975Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
—Laurence Sterne, 1760Shamelessness is the shame of being without shame.
—Mencius, c. 290 BC