Famous Quotes
- "How fleeting are all human passions compared to the massive continuity of ducks."
- "She went to bed thinking more about another person than about herself. This goes to prove that even minor poetry may have its practical uses."
- "It may, perhaps, be embarrassing for a solitary man to walk across a wide quadrangle under a fire of glances from a collection of collegiate females; but it is child's play compared, for example, with the long trek from the pavilion at Lord's to the far end of the pitch, with five wickets down and ninety needed to save the follow-on. Thousands of people then alive might have recognized that easy and unhurried stride and confident carriage of the head."
- "However loudly we may assert our own unworthiness, few of us are really offended by hearing the assertion contradicted by a disinterested party."
- "Placetne, Magistra? Placet."
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“Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.”
—Maureen Dowd, U.S. journalist. The New York Times, “Giant Puppet Show,” (September 10, 1995)
“Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say “I think,” “I am,” but quotes some saint or sage.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)