If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
—Dorothy Parker
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I had rather be in a state of misery and envied for my supposed happiness than in a state of happiness and pitied for my supposed misery.
—Elizabeth Inchbald, 1793The most may err as grossly as the few.
—John Dryden, 1681There’s hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.
—Albert Camus, 1957The Mediterranean has the colors of a mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet—you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing light has taken on a tinge of pink or gray.
—Vincent van Gogh, 1888Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCI ride rough waters and shall sink with no one to save me.
—Virginia Woolf, 1931My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.
—John Quincy Adams, 1844Let us have peace, but let us have liberty, law, and justice first.
—Frederick Douglass, 1878People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.
—James Baldwin, 1953The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
—Saint Augustine, c. 390Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth. Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
—Julie Burchill, 1986