I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be a Catholic) how to act and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote.
—John F. Kennedy, 1960
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Music today is nothing more than the art of performing difficult pieces.
—Voltaire, 1759The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
—William Hazlitt, 1821The envious die not once, but as often as the envied win applause.
—Baltasar Gracián, 1647Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1321There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
—Kathleen Norris, 1931Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
—Gore Vidal, 1981At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
—Rose Macaulay, 1925Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.
—Robert Southey, 1809Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.
—Winston Churchill, 1939I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm’s way.
—John Paul Jones, 1778