As bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character.
—David Sedaris, 1997
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Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history.
—Fernand Braudel, 1979Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476I love everyone now that I have gray hair.
—Polatkin, c. 1855The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command.
—Alexander of Tralles, c. 600In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920The sea hath fish for every man.
—William Camden, 1605You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
—Billie Holiday, 1956It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCAs I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
—Abraham Lincoln, c. 1858Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
—Robert Wilson, 1991