The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt, 1970
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
—Jane Austen, 1814God is our father, but even more is God our mother.
—Pope John Paul I, 1978Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experienced, but that’s not where I live.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
—George Borrow, 1843The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
—Joshua Slocum, 1900One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
—André Gide, 1926Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1852Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on nonalcoholic wine.
—Karl Kraus, 1909When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
—St. Jerome, 395All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCUnder the wide and starry sky, / Dig the grave and let me lie.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887