What has happened? It is life that has happened; and I am old.
Said Louis Aragon.


If an ox could paint a picture, his god would look like an ox.
Said Xenophanes.


Laurence Sterne’s corpse was sold to a medical school by grave robbers. It had been completely dissected before someone chanced to recognize it.
 
 
Heraclitus did not say that one cannot step into the same river twice. One of his followers did.
Heraclitus did say that praying to statues of the gods was like talking to a house instead of to its owner, however.


It took eight years to sell the first printing of six hundred copies of The Interpretation of Dreams.


Roland Barthes died after having been hit by a laundry truck.