Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.
—Benjamin Franklin, c. 1732
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Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.
—Euripides, c. 425 BCAshore it’s wine, women, and song; aboard it’s rum, bum, and concertina.
—British naval saying, c. 1800What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That’s what sitting on your ass does to your face.
—Leonard Cohen, 1970In times of pestilence, gaiety and joyousness are most profitable.
—Jacme d’Agramont, 1348A crowded police court docket is the surest sign that trade is brisk and money plenty.
—Mark Twain, 1872Oh, democracy! Whither are you leading us?
—Aristophanes, 414 BCCorporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.
—Chinese proverbOne of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
—Julia Child, 2001The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1983We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1922If one hears bad music, it is one’s duty to drown it by conversation.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890