Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895
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As matron and mistress will differ in temper and tone, so will the friend be distinct from the faithless parasite.
—Horace, c. 20 BCI am dying with the help of too many physicians.
—Alexander the Great, c. 323 BCO flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596God is our father, but even more is God our mother.
—Pope John Paul I, 1978The mere existence of nuclear weapons by the thousands is an incontrovertible sign of human insanity.
—Isaac Asimov, 1988That which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want to ascertain a man’s true character, make him drunk.
—Martin Luther, 1569Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688The severity of a teacher is better than the love of a father.
—Saadi, 1258The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
—Susan Sontag, 1977Life is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817What water gives, water takes away.
—Portuguese proverb