Quotes from authors passed in 1954
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.
Dean Inge
Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
William Ralph Inge
Originality is undetected plagiarism.
William Ralph Inge
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
Dean Inge
I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Linus Torvalds 
Francois Villon 
John Chafee 
Randall Jarrell 
Macaulay Culkin 
Solon 
Tammy Faye Bakker 
Marion Jones