I won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God.
—Madonna, c. 1985
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The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing.
—Herodotus, c. 425 BCI do love cricket—it’s so very English.
—Sarah Bernhardt, c. 1908The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended—and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.
—Robert Frost, 1939I will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
—Colette, 1944The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.
—Plato, c. 375 BCIn every ill turn of fortune, the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.
—Boethius, c. 520There are some who, if a cat accidentally comes into the room, though they neither see it nor are told of it, will presently be in a sweat and ready to die away.
—Increase Mather, 1684Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864Style is the image of character.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1789The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
—William Blake, 1793