The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983
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What hath night to do with sleep?
—John Milton, 1637A friend who is very near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
—George Ade, 1902Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972I am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten.
—Al Capone, 1929The boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.
—Plato, c. 348 BCWhen I do a show, the whole show revolves around me, and if I don’t show up, they can just forget it.
—Ethel Merman, c. 1955In every man is a wild beast; most of them don’t know how to hold it back, and the majority give it full rein when they are not restrained by terror of law.
—Frederick the Great, 1759Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
—Saint Augustine, 397The Mediterranean has the colors of a mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet—you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing light has taken on a tinge of pink or gray.
—Vincent van Gogh, 1888We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.
—Winston Churchill, 1948The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799Petty laws breed great crimes.
—Ouida, 1880