The best way to fill time is to waste it.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987
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I hate the sight of monkeys; they remind me so of poor relations.
—Henry Luttrell, 1820There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh.
—Catullus, c. 60 BCThere is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
—Homer, c. 750 BCDarkness endows the small and ordinary ones among mankind with poetical power.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387Money is a language for translating the work of the farmer into the work of the barber, doctor, engineer, or plumber.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1964When poets don’t know what to say and have completely given up on the play, just like a finger, they lift the machine and the spectators are satisfied.
—Antiphanes, c. 350 BCI am weary of friends, and friendships are all monsters.
—Jonathan Swift, 1710The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.
—Eugenia Sheppard, 1960History is a people’s memory, and without a memory man is demoted to the level of the lower animals.
—Malcolm X, 1964I have always found it in mine own experience an easier matter to devise many and profitable inventions than to dispose of one of them to the good of the author himself.
—Hugh Plat, 1595