He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
—Francis Bacon, 1625
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717Time robs us of all, even of memory.
—Virgil, c. 40 BCI used to think that everyone was just being funny. But now I don’t know. I mean, how can you tell?
—Andy Warhol, 1970Shamelessness is the shame of being without shame.
—Mencius, c. 290 BCLife is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817When arms speak, the laws are silent.
—Cicero, 52 BCThe most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.
—Théophile Gautier, c. 1835There are some who, if a cat accidentally comes into the room, though they neither see it nor are told of it, will presently be in a sweat and ready to die away.
—Increase Mather, 1684We don’t have the option of turning away from the future. No one gets to vote on whether technology is going to change our lives.
—Bill Gates, 1995I think we are inexterminable, like flies and bedbugs.
—Robert Frost, 1959Human happiness never remains long in the same place.
—Herodotus, c. 430 BC