I never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953
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Life’s no resting, but a moving.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCThe first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.
—Umberto Eco, 1980The boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.
—Plato, c. 348 BCSome of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.
—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991The vice presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss.
—John Nance Garner, c. 1967It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
—Thucydides, 410 BCYou campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
—Mario Cuomo, 1985It would seem that in history it’s never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.
—Sybille Bedford, 1963To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Bright youth passes as quickly as thought.
—Theognis, c. 550 BC