Don’t ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.
—Colette, 1944
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A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
—Pliny the Elder, c. 77Traveling is like gambling: it is ever connected with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1797All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1655In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.
—Thomas Szasz, 1970There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.
—Sylvia Alice Earle, 1995Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1862Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 30 BCBe temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth, or the Gout will seize you.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1734To teach is to learn twice over.
—Joseph Joubert, c. 1805This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
—Horace, c. 35 BCThe world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1776To live outside the law you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966