All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BC
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Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
—Mark Twain, 1893Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.
—Horace Walpole, 1784Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
—Woody Allen, 1979If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904When arms speak, the laws are silent.
—Cicero, 52 BCI hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say—your professional poets, I mean—there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1810The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
—George Eliot, 1876Civilization, as we know it, is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
—Arnold Toynbee, 1948I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
—Xenocrates, c. 350 BCI don’t believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
—Woody Allen, 1971That 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, 1569There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891