Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
—Pierre Boulez, 1989
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Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies.
—H.L. Mencken, 1925The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
—Myrtle Reed, 1910In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
—André Gide, 1926Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.
—Joan Didion, 2005It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
—Thucydides, 410 BCFamiliarity breeds contempt—and children.
—Mark Twain, c. 1900The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, / And drinks, and gapes for drink again.
—Abraham Cowley, 1656A person who sees only fashion in fashion is a fool.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1830It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
—Horace, c. 25 BCI do love cricket—it’s so very English.
—Sarah Bernhardt, c. 1908