To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.
—Eugenia Sheppard, 1960
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Memory is like the moon, which hath its new, its full, and its wane.
—Margaret Cavendish, 1655As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
—Abraham Lincoln, c. 1858Seafarers go to sleep in the evening not knowing whether they will find themselves at the bottom of the sea the next morning.
—Jean de Joinville, c. 1305When the root lives on, the new leaves come back.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCHome is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903If law and justice do not attain their ends, the people will be unable to move hand or foot.
—Confucius, c. 500I shall embrace my rival—until I suffocate him.
—Jean Racine, 1669If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.
—Charles Dickens, 1865It is impossible to translate the poets. Can you translate music?
—Voltaire, c. 1732The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.
—Albert Einstein, 1930I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
—Fidel Castro, 1959
A man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
—Victor Hugo, 1862