Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.
—Albert Camus, 1942
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Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the king’s horses.
—Gnomologia, 1732When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1918If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
—Mark Twain, 1894Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
—Erasmus, 1515Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.
—Anthony Doerr, 2006The best way to fill time is to waste it.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987Death keeps no calendar.
—George Herbert, 1640Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
—Margaret Mitchell, 1936Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906As man disappears from sight, the land remains.
—Maori proverbSpeech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC