You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.
—William Randolph Hearst, 1898
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No time to marry, no time to settle down, I’m a young woman, and ain’t done runnin’ round.
—Bessie Smith, 1926Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995I don’t believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
—Woody Allen, 1971The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified heads, fills citified ears—as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk happy.
—Frank Lloyd Wright, 1958The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
—Gertrude Stein, 1914It is wretched business to be digging a well just as you’re dying of thirst.
—Plautus, c. 193 BCWe are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repair.
—Samuel Pepys, 1661I have yet, I believe, some years in store, for I have a good state of health and a happy mind, and I take care of both by nourishing the first with temperance and the latter with abundance. This, I believe, you will allow to be the true philosophy of life.
—Thomas Paine, 1803One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCAn ugly sight, a man who’s afraid.
—Jean Anouilh, 1944I never even saw the use of the sea. Many a sad heart has it caused, and many a sick stomach has it occasioned! The boldest sailor climbs on board with a heavy soul and leaps on land with a light spirit.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1827