I have yet, I believe, some years in store, for I have a good state of health and a happy mind, and I take care of both by nourishing the first with temperance and the latter with abundance. This, I believe, you will allow to be the true philosophy of life.
—Thomas Paine, 1803
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Drink does not drown care but waters it, and makes it grow faster.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1749No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time’s carcass.
—Karl Marx, 1847Pushing someone toward liberty does not set her free; taking the chains off a prisoner does not give him freedom.
—Ken Bugul, 1982Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1940A friend who is very near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
—George Ade, 1902I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?
—Andy Warhol, 1963Labor is no disgrace.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCTomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
—Kathleen Norris, 1931In a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins its case.
—Rwandan proverbHealth in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
—Helen Keller, 1936