Michel de Montaigne
“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.”
“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.”
“All phone calls are obscene.”
“Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.”
“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?'”
“Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.”
“Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!”
“What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream? Or what’s worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?”
“Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.”
“Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?”
“In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses.”