Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906
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A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
—Ethiopian proverbThe pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580Man has here two and a half minutes—one to smile, one to sigh, and half a one to love; for in the midst of this minute he dies.
—Jean Paul, 1795What timid man does not avoid contact with the sick, fearing lest he contract a disease so near?
—Ovid, c. 10Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773Does anybody really want to attend to cities other than to flee, fleece, privatize, butcher, or decimate them?
—Jane Holtz Kay, 1992According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence, and they think they have seen something.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1843I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962Inventor, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers, and springs and believes it civilization.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905