All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.
—James Joyce, 1939
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Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, now that, and changes names as it changes in direction.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1315It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925My people and I have come to an agreement that satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.
—Frederick the Great, c. 1770I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1871Living is an ailment that is relieved every sixteen hours by sleep. A palliative. Death is the cure.
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1790The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.
—Epictetus, c. 100If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.
—Martial, c. 86All of the great musicians have borrowed from the songs of the common people.
—Antonín Dvořák, 1893God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
—J.M. Barrie, 1922The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
—H.G. Wells, 1905An ape will be an ape, though clad in purple.
—Erasmus, 1511