Don’t ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.
—Colette, 1944
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I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
—Susan Sontag, 1977Death renders all equal.
—Claudian, c. 395As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.
—Will Self, 1994Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCThe three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.
—Nell Scovell, 1991It is noble to die before doing anything that deserves death.
—Anaxandrides, c. 376All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1655On the loftiest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own rump.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
—Robert Burton, c. 1620The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
—Carl Sandburg, 1934