O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596
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Anyone who in discussion quotes authority uses his memory rather than his intellect.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa, c. 1975It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.
—Horace, 19 BCWhat experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1830I never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.
—William Blake, c. 1790My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
—Allen Ginsberg, 1981The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, / And drinks, and gapes for drink again.
—Abraham Cowley, 1656Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BCLiberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BCIf you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.
—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330