If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.
—David Sedaris, 2004
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Big head, little wit.
—French proverbIf we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
—Francis Bacon, 1615Friendship’s a noble name, ’tis love refined.
—Susanna Centlivre, 1703Where shall I, of wandering weary, find my resting place at last?
—Heinrich Heine, 1827The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.
—Hannah Arendt, 1972Exchange is no robbery.
—German proverbI'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
—Gore Vidal, 1973Someone will remember us
I say
even in another time.
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
—Vladimir Nabokov, 1941Profit is profit even in Mecca.
—Nigerian proverbMemory is like the moon, which hath its new, its full, and its wane.
—Margaret Cavendish, 1655Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
—George W. Bush, 2004