What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1830
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
—John Berger, 1972Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
—George Eliot, 1876Friendship is a plant that loves the sun—thrives ill under clouds.
—Bronson Alcott, 1872If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812The sole business of a seaman onshore who has to go to sea again is to take as much pleasure as he can.
—Leigh Hunt, 1820The brightest light burns the quickest.
—Olive Beatrice Muir, 1900One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat eight hours a day, nor drink for eight hours a day, nor make love for eight hours.
—William Faulkner, 1958Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BCWhen nature is overriden, she takes her revenge.
—Marya Mannes, 1958Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887