Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
—William Morris, 1882
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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
—Jean Genet, 1949Of all the creatures that breathe and creep on the surface of the earth, none is more to be pitied than man.
—Homer, c. 750 BCA bad reputation is easy to come by, painful to bear, and difficult to clear.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCNo city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944The fox knows lots of tricks, the hedgehog only one—but it’s a winner.
—Archilochus, c. 650 BCTo ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.
—Albert Camus, 1951Inventor, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers, and springs and believes it civilization.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BCI am not Athenian or Greek but a citizen of the world.
—Socrates, c. 420 BCKnowledge itself is power.
—Francis Bacon, 1597No wise man ever wished to be younger.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986