For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BC
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Art imitates nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his master; thus it is a sort of grandchild of God.
—Dante, c. 1315These useless men ought to be cut up and served at a banquet. I really believe that athletes have less intelligence than swine.
—Dio Chrysostom, c. 95I would delight in music, but the music is discordant.
—Xie Lingyun, c. 425What is the city but the people?
—William Shakespeare, 1608Jesters do oft prove prophets.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1605I don’t believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
—Woody Allen, 1971The past is always tense and the future, perfect.
—Zadie Smith, 2000Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.
—Jean Baudrillard, c. 1987War is fear cloaked in courage.
—William Westmoreland, 1966Writing cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.
—The Book of Changes, c. 350 BCThis is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.
—Tony Blair, 2006The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible.
—Herophilus, c. 290 BC