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MARVIN: The first ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn’t enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.

Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, “Fit the 5th” (BBC Radio) (1978-04-05)

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Adams, Douglas - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, "Fit the 5th" (BBC Radio) (1978-04-05) | WIST Quotations

MARVIN: The first ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn’t enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline. When adapted as a novel, Hitchhiker's Guide No. 2, The Restaurant at…

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A quotation from Emerson

We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we waited for some better sympathy and intimacy to come. But whence and when? To-morrow will be like to-day. Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us. Scarcely can we say we see new men, new women, approaching us. We are too old to regard fashion, too old to expect patronage of any greater or more powerful. Let us suck the sweetness of those affections and consuetudes that grow near us. These old shoes are easy to the feet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Prudence,” Essays: First Series, No. 7

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Sep 24

A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.

[Ἐγγὺς μὲν ἡ σὴ περὶ πάντων λήθη, ἐγγὺς δὲ ἡ πάντων περὶ σοῦ λήθη.]

Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 7, ch. 21 (7.21) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Jul 16, 2025

A quotation from Steven Moffat

THE DOCTOR: People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it’s more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly … timey-wimey … stuff.

Steven Moffat (b. 1961) Scottish television writer, producer
Doctor Who (1995), 03×10 “Blink” (2007-06-09)

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Jun 17, 2025

A quotation from J. M. Barrie

   “I am old, Peter. I am ever so much more than twenty. I grew up long ago.”
   “You promised not to!”
   “I couldn’t help it.”

J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist [James Matthew Barrie]
Peter and Wendy, ch. 17 “When Wendy Grew Up” (1911)

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Peter and Wendy, ch. 17 "When Wendy Grew Up" (1911) - Barrie, James | WIST Quotations

"I am old, Peter. I am ever so much more than twenty. I grew up long ago." "You promised not to!" "I couldn't help it." Wendy speaking to Peter, who has returned many years later, though he is unaware of the interval.

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Hooked On Music Mar 25, 2025

CD-Review - HELLOWEEN - March Of Time - Best Of 40 Years
https://www.hooked-on-music.de/review/cd-review-helloween-march-of-time-best-of-40-years/16184
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WIST Quotations moves again!Oct 1, 2024

A quotation from Watterson, Bill:

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CALVIN: Know what’s weird? Day by day nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything is different.
»

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Calvin and Hobbes (1995-11-04) - Watterson, Bill | WIST Quotations Quotations

CALVIN: Know what's weird? Day by day nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything is different.

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WIST Quotations moves again!Jul 26, 2024

A quotation from Horace:

«
Ah, Postumus! they fleet away,
Our years, nor piety one hour
Can win from wrinkles and decay,
And Death’s indomitable power.

[Eheu fugaces, Postume, Postume,
labuntur anni nec pietas moram
rugis et instanti senectae
adferet indomitaeque morti.]
»

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https://wist.info/horace/70898/

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