A jest breaks no bones.
—Samuel Johnson, 1781
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It’s the end of the world every day, for someone.
—Margaret Atwood, 2000We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time’s carcass.
—Karl Marx, 1847It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
—Friedrich Schiller, 1781If one hears bad music, it is one’s duty to drown it by conversation.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say—your professional poets, I mean—there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1810The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1962I always think of nature as a great spectacle, somewhat resembling the opera.
—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686Put national causes first and personal grudges last.
—Sima Qian, c. 91 BCThe most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
—Yves Saint Laurent, 1978True friendship withstands time, distance, and silence.
—Isabel Allende, 2000If you have any soul worth expressing, it will show itself in your singing.
—John Ruskin, 1865The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
—Marianne Moore, 1935