—  Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian leader of independence

—  Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright

—  H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic

—  Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher

—  Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986, Argentine writer

—  Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer

—  Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher

—  Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President

—  Henry de Montherlant, 1895-1972, French writer

—  André Frossard, 1915-1995, French politician & essayist

—  Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor

—  Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist

—  Zsa Zsa Gabor, 1917-2016, Hungarian-American actress

—  Horace, 65-8 BC, Roman poet

—  Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer

—  William Wordsworth, 1770-1850, English poet

—  Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet

—  E. M. Forster, 1879-1970, British writer

—  Wolinski, 1934-2015, French cartoonist

—  Alfred Hitchcock, 1899-1980, British film director

—  Franz Kafka, 1883-1924, Bohemian writer

—  Simone De Beauvoir, 1908-1986, French writer

—  Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875-1926, Czech-German poet

—  Louise Glück, 1943-2023, American poet, Nobel 2020

—  William Maxwell, 1908-2000, American writer

—  Henry de Montherlant, 1895-1972, French writer

—  Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist

—  Robert Heinlein, 1907-1988, American sci-fi writer

—  Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher

—  Molière, 1622-1673, French playwright

—  Yevgeny Kaseyev, contemporary Russian author of maxims

Lente hora, celeriter anni.

—  Medieval Sundial motto

In saecula saeculorum.

—  Latin phrase

     (from the Vulgate; translation of the original Greek “εις τους αιώνας των αιώνων”)

Exegi monumentum aere perennius.

—  Horace, 65-8 BC, Roman poet

—  Jerry Seinfeld, 1954-, American comedian

—  Fran Lebowitz, 1951-, American journalist & writer

—  Wolinski, 1934-2015, French cartoonist

Μέτρον βίου το καλόν ου το του χρόνου μήκος.

—  Plutarch, 47-120 AD, Ancient Greek historian

Τον βίον μη, τω χρόνω βραχύν όντα, πράγμασιν κακοίς μακρόν ποιείν.

—  Thales of Miletus, 643-548 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher

Μακρός γαρ αιών μυρίοις τίκτει πόνους.

—  Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Oenomaus

Βραχύς ο βίος ανθρώπω εύ πράσσοντι, δυστυχούντι δε μακρός.

—  Apollonius of Tyana, 1st cent. AD, Ancient Greek Neopythagorean philosopher

—  International proverb