I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595
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Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1864I drink for the thirst to come.
—François Rabelais, 1535Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.
—Malcolm X, 1964The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1962People who’ve drunk neat wine don’t care a damn.
—Hipponax, c. 550 BCThe transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry to equanimity, receptivity, and peace is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal center of energy.
—William James, 1902Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.
—William Wycherley, 1675It is permitted to learn even from an enemy.
—Ovid, c. 8Attacks on me will do no harm, and silent contempt is the best answer to them.
—James Monroe, 1808If we pretend to respect the artist at all, we must allow him his freedom of choice, in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify. Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.
—Henry James, 1884