There’s hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600
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It is impossible to translate the poets. Can you translate music?
—Voltaire, c. 1732I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968What timid man does not avoid contact with the sick, fearing lest he contract a disease so near?
—Ovid, c. 10Writing cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.
—The Book of Changes, c. 350 BCThe successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
—Erich Fromm, 1941Hoping for new friendship from old enemies is / Like expecting to find a rose in a furnace.
—Muhammad Baqir Najm-i Sani, 1612To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Children and fools cannot lie.
—John Heywood, 1546Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.
—Fernando Pessoa, c. 1935No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944