Whole nations have melted away like balls of snow before the sun.
—Dragging Canoe, 1775
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Nature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCNo human life, not even the life of a hermit, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.
—Hannah Arendt, 1958Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
—Robert Benchley, 1935The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
—Anna Jameson, 1846I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music.
—Giuseppe Verdi, 1900In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
—Colette, 1944If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
—Charles M. Allen, 1967Memories are hunting horns
whose noise dies away in the wind.
Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
—Robertson Davies, 1985All revolutions devour their own children.
—Ernst Röhm, 1933We 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, 1847Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
—Walter Scott, 1823