Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.
—Sarah Bernhardt, 1904
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Jesters do oft prove prophets.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1605To hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat.
—Milan Kundera, 1978War is the child of pride, and pride the daughter of riches.
—Jonathan Swift, 1697From the cradle to the coffin, underwear comes first.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1928Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
—Cato the Elder, c. 184 BCMore pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth.
—Francis Picabia, 1949People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
—Edmund Burke, 1790What is life but organized energy?
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1958If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
—Tennessee Williams, 1953