I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890Reality is always the foe of famous names.
—Petrarch, 1337The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
—Joseph Conrad, 1899It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
—The BibleThe future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889Let my epitaph be, “Here lies Joseph, who failed in everything he undertook.”
—Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, 1790It belongs to a nobleman to weep in an hour of disaster.
—Euripides, 412 BCAn electoral choice of ten different fascists is like choosing which way one wishes to die.
—George Jackson, 1971Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the grand climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
—Jean Baudrillard, 1987They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.
—Martin Luther, c. 1530To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.
—Eugenia Sheppard, 1960