It belongs to a nobleman to weep in an hour of disaster.
—Euripides, 412 BC
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Everyone knows about everybody in Hollywood—who sleeps with whom, who doesn’t sleep, who does it standing on his head or in the dentist’s chair.
—Rock Hudson, 1982At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850Fear is a poor guarantor of a long life.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.
—Benjamin Franklin, c. 1732Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
—Herbert Hoover, 1936Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
—Tennessee Williams, 1951I imagined it was more difficult to die.
—Louis XIV, 1715Modesty is a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
—H.L. Mencken, 1921All technologies should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.
—David Brower, 1992The dead are often just as living to us as the living are, only we cannot get them to believe it. They can come to us, but till we die we cannot go to them. To be dead is to be unable to understand that one is alive.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1888O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.
—Horace, c. 8 BC