Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.
—Sarah Bernhardt, 1904
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Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one’s conquests.
—Louisa May Alcott, 1866A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
—Ouida, 1880A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
—Joseph Addison, 1711The only justification of rebellion is success.
—Thomas B. Reed, 1878I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborDespotism subjects a nation to one tyrant, democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.
—Chinese proverbYou campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
—Mario Cuomo, 1985The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
—Henry Fielding, 1730