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Fame 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, 1962

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

—Barbara Ward, 1972

Words pay no debts.

—William Shakespeare, 1601

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

—H.G. Wells, 1905

What hath night to do with sleep?

—John Milton, 1637

A shopkeeper will never get the more custom by beating his customers; and what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation.

—Josiah Tucker, 1766

Doing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

—Roger Ebert, 1998

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

—Gore Vidal, 1981

‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860

One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.

—Michel de Montaigne, 1580

Human happiness never remains long in the same place.

—Herodotus, c. 430 BC

The history of the land has been written very largely in water.

—John Hodgdon Bradley Jr., 1935

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

—Frank Zappa, 1989