One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958
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There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCOne machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.
—William Empson, 1928No time to marry, no time to settle down, I’m a young woman, and ain’t done runnin’ round.
—Bessie Smith, 1926The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
—Sigmund Freud, 1912The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
—John Berger, 1984Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.
—George Gershwin, 1933They say, “We only have the life of this world. We die and we live, and nothing destroys us but time.” Yet, not true knowledge have they of this—only belief.
—The Qur’an, c. 620The human working stock is of interest only insofar as it is profitable.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1970O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
—Leon TrotskyOften the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.
—Voltaire, 1764