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
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We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
—Barbara Ward, 1972Words pay no debts.
—William Shakespeare, 1601The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
—H.G. Wells, 1905What hath night to do with sleep?
—John Milton, 1637A 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, 1766Doing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
—Roger Ebert, 1998Some 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, 1860One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580Human happiness never remains long in the same place.
—Herodotus, c. 430 BCThe history of the land has been written very largely in water.
—John Hodgdon Bradley Jr., 1935Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
—Frank Zappa, 1989