Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.
—Charles Lamb, 1810
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Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
—Margaret Mitchell, 1936A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
—Ethiopian proverbI’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
—Madame de Sévigné, 1671There is no profit without another’s loss.
—Roman proverbAll the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BCYou may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.
—Horace, 20 BCMy mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.
—John Wilkes Booth, 1865Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the king’s horses.
—Gnomologia, 1732Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.
—Benjamin Franklin, c. 1732The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is better, only the god knows.
—Socrates, 399 BC