All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895
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All our enemies are mortal.
—Paul Valéry, 1942I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.
—Mitch Hedberg, 1999There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
—Francis Bacon, 1625Life is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
—Ronald Reagan, 1965Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCIf we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.
—George W. Bush, 2005Years are nothing to me—they should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or to consider them? In the world of wild nature, time is measured by seasons only—the bird does not know how old it is—the rose tree does not count its birthdays!
—Marie Corelli, 1911Unexemplary words and unfounded doctrines are avoided by the noble person. Why utter them?
—Dong Zhongshu, c. 120 BCMy ideas are clear. My orders are precise. Within five years, Rome must appear marvelous to all the people of the world—vast, orderly, powerful, as in the time of the empire of Augustus.
—Benito Mussolini, 1929Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.
—Horace Walpole, 1745