"Death is the last and best reward for a life well lived." (Bob Weir)

"Zeus, who guided men to think,
who has laid it down that wisdom
comes alone through suffering.
Still there drips in sleep against the heart
grief of memory; against
our pleasure we are temperate
From the gods who sit in grandeur
grace comes somehow violent."

(Aeschylus, Agamemnon)

"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)

"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)

"To slob" is an intransitive verb.

“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry, and a hundred in dress.” (Joyce Carey)

“There goes a man made by the Lord Almighty and not by his tailor.” (Anecdotally, apocryphally and falsely attributed to Andrew Jackson)

“Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant garde that the ‘ins’ and the ‘outs’ change places with the speed of mach 3.” (Igor Stravinsky)

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

“Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.” (Eric Bently)

“Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.” (Edna Woolman Chase)

“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)

“Fashion is that by which the fantastic becomes for a moment universal." (Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray)

"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)

"It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage." (Indiana Jones)

"Little wit in the head makes much work for the feet." (Anonymous)

"Money is the wise man's religion." (Euripides)

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

"If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled." (Robert Burton)

"Everything that deceives may be said to enchant." (Plato)