There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BC
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No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1860Fear has a smell, as love does.
—Margaret Atwood, 1972In a true democracy, everyone can be upper-class and live in Connecticut.
—Lisa Birnbach, 1980Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the inclination of your heart and the desire of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 200 BCOn the loftiest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own rump.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCThe young always have the same problem—how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their elders and copying one another.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Education—a debt due from present to future generations.
—George Peabody, 1852Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 30 BCIn America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
—Albert Camus, c. 1940Anyone who has a child should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.
—W.H. Auden, 1947