It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

The straight path must sometimes be crooked.

Carole Wilkinson

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

Elias Canetti

My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion; but when a healthy wind blows, they fall accordingly...

Johann Sebastian Bach, Letter to

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Samuel Butler

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.

Mary Renault

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

Evita Peron

So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.

Mika Waltari

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

Karl Liebknecht

When you're an artist, there's always a moment in your life when you think you're not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love, you're just depressed, so you don't move, so you don't change. So you're not inspired.

Melanie Laurent

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

Samuel Richardson

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

Nicolaus Copernicus