What is the city but the people?
—William Shakespeare, 1608
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
—William Carlos Williams, 1947Men are merriest when they are from home.
—William Shakespeare, 1599Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth. Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
—Julie Burchill, 1986No one wins a quarrel by quarreling.
—German proverbGood or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.
—David Hume, 1742Only the little people pay taxes.
—Leona Helmsley, 1989What a man does abroad by night requires and implies more deliberate energy than what he is encouraged to do in the sunshine.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1852Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
—Toni Morrison, 1987One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat eight hours a day, nor drink for eight hours a day, nor make love for eight hours.
—William Faulkner, 1958Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949A traveler’s chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad—as well as good—example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.
—Jonathan Swift, 1726