He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732
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We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
—Aesop, c. 600 BCHealth indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods—restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.
—Robert Burton, 1621The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. War is hell.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1879There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings.
—Anna Quindlen, 2012Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCResorting to the law to resolve a dispute is a declaration of spiritual bankruptcy.
—Quentin Crisp, 1984Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body, to try the manners of different nations, to hear the chimes at midnight.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
—Carl Sandburg, 1934People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
—Edmund Burke, 1790