He laughs best who laughs last.
—French proverb
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In times of pestilence, gaiety and joyousness are most profitable.
—Jacme d’Agramont, 1348One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
—Oscar Wilde, 1894God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
—Marcel Marceau, 1958I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
—Anaïs Nin, 1950A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Because the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable and worshipful ancestors had not recovered from their ailments, you and I would not be here today.
—Confucius, c. 515 BCI say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
—H. Rap Brown, 1967Those who believe in freedom of the will have never loved and never hated.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1893A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977Sex: in America, an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
—Edith Wharton, 1924