(Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928), U.S. director, screenwriter. Vincent Rapallo (Frank Silvera), Killer's Kiss, to the attractive woman who rebuffed his advances earlier (1955).)
Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summers.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 1, p. 277, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
There was more foolery yet, if I could remember it.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Casca, in Julius Caesar, act 1, sc. 2, l. 287.
Reporting to Cassius what happened when Caesar addressed the people of Rome.)
The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 1, p. 108, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
Remember that you need not eat unless you are hungry.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Letter, August 9, 1850, to Harrison Blake, in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 6, p. 186, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
(George Santayana (1863-1952), U.S. philosopher, poet. Life of Reason, "Reason in Common Sense," ch. 12 (1905-6).
William L. Shirer made these words the epigraph for his Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1959).)