I never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953
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Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825Let us leave this Europe which never stops talking of Man yet massacres him at every one of its street corners, at every corner of the world.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
—John Berger, 1987Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1856A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764We don’t have the option of turning away from the future. No one gets to vote on whether technology is going to change our lives.
—Bill Gates, 1995I do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580