There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.
—Sylvia Plath, 1963
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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
—Erasmus, 1515The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982Man is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCArt transcends its limitations only by staying within them.
—Flannery O’Connor, 1964Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa, c. 1975Two crimes undid me: a poem and a mistake.
—Ovid, 10By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1908I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BC