"Once the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place." (Philip Roth)

"The city lifts its hand like a cripple, O my lord Shu-Sin,
It lies at thy feet like a lion-cub, O son of Shulgi.
O my god, the wine-maid has sweet wine to give,
Like her date-wine sweet is her vulva, sweet is her wine..."

(Sumerian love song, 3rd Millennium BCE)

"If this is dying, I don't think much of it." (Lytton Strachey)

"The sleep of the laboring person is sweet..." (Ecclesiastes 5:12)

"I would rather marry a good man, a man of mind, with a hope and bright prospects ahead for position, fame and power than to marry all the houses, gold and bones in the world." (Mary Todd Lincoln)

Velcro = Velvet and Crochet

“Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.” (F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby)

“Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.” (Will Rogers)

“Suddenly I found myself on Times Square. I had traveled eight thousand miles around the American continent and I was back on Times Square; and right in the middle of a rush hour, too, seeing with my innocent road–eyes the absolute madness and fantastic hoorair of New York with its millions and millions hustling forever for a buck among themselves, the mad dream—grabbing, taking, giving, sighing, dying, just so they could be buried in those awful cemetery cities beyond Long Island City.” (Jack Kerouac)

“Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always becomes ugly with time.” (Jean Cocteau)

“Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat.” (Field Marshall Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell)

"The god of war, money changer of dead bodies,
held the balance of his spear in the fighting,
and from the corpse-fires at Ilium
sent to their dearest the dust
heavy and bitter with tears shed
packing smooth the urns with
ashes that once were men."

(Aeschylus, Agamemnon)

If Joe Rogan was named Josh Rogan, the inverse of his name would be Rogan Josh.

“I don’t want anyone to challenge my right to sound completely mad.” (Duke Ellington)

"A kiss that is never tasted forever and ever is wasted." (from the 1934 song "For All We Know" with lyrics by Sam M. Lewis, music by J. Fred Coots, and sung by Billie Holiday on 1958's Lady in Satin, her penultimate record)

“Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make oneself its slave.” (Napoleon Bonaparte)

"Only when one knows where one is to rest can one have a fixed purpose. Only with a fixed purpose can one achieve calmness of mind. Only with calmness of mind can one attain serene repose. Only in serene repose can one carry on careful deliberation. Only through careful deliberation can one have achievement. Things have their roots and branches; affairs have their beginning and end. They that know what comes first and what comes last come themselves near the Way." (The Great Learning, authorship unknown but often attributed to Zengzi, a disciple of Confucius; perhaps as early as 200 BCE)

“Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.” (Edward Coke)

“Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” (John D. Rockefeller)

“They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.” (Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast)