If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.
—George W. Bush, 2005
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The great difficulty lies in trying to transpose last night’s moment to a day which has no knowledge of it.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942How like to us is that filthy beast the ape.
—Cicero, 45 BCThere is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665Those who cross the seas change their climate but not their character.
—Roman proverbThe passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
—Marianne Moore, 1935No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762I never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
—Brigitte Bardot, 1989The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
—George Eliot, 1876People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing’s as eternal as the dishes.
—Margaret Mahy, 1985I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.
—Mitch Hedberg, 1999Big head, little wit.
—French proverb