If one hears bad music, it is one’s duty to drown it by conversation.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.
—Robert Southey, 1809Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.
—Solomon ibn Gabirol, 1050Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
—Aphra Behn, 1677How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do.
—William James, 1902I looked and there was a pale green horse! Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed with him.
—Book of Revelations, c. 90Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.
—Epictetus, c. 100Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717For, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
—Herman Melville, 1851To make laws that man cannot and will not obey serves to bring all law into contempt.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1860To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
—William Hazlitt, 1821