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- Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
- Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
- Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929), Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)
- It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true: "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, "In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous."
- Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987), Andy Warhol's Exposures (1979) "Studio 54"
- Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), "Middlemarch", Book I, ch.1
- I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
- Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), Cornhuskers (1918) "Prairie"
- Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
- Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), New York Times Feb. 13, 1959
- Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8
- Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
- John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925), quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)
- When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980), The Devil and the Good Lord (1951) act 1
- Existence precedes and rules essence.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980), Being and Nothingness (1943)
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