The mill will never grind with water that is past.
—Daniel McCallum, 1870
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A person who sees only fashion in fashion is a fool.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1830Rebellion is no less a sin than divination.
—Book of Samuel, c. 550 BCWithout music life would be a mistake.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905I have always found it in mine own experience an easier matter to devise many and profitable inventions than to dispose of one of them to the good of the author himself.
—Hugh Plat, 1595There is something stirring in the way civilization gapes like a savage at the achievements of nature.
—Karl Kraus, 1909No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.
—Emma Goldman, 1917There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
—Madame de Sévigné, 1671Some people make stuff; other people have to buy it. And when we gave up making stuff, starting in the 1980s, we were left with the unique role of buying.
—Barbara Ehrenreich, 2008Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
—Gore Vidal, 1981Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
—Alexander Pope, 1738’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595