A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BC
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There is no small pleasure in sweet water.
—Ovid, c. 10There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.
—Sylvia Alice Earle, 1995At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850The purest joy is to live without disguise, unconstrained by the ties of a grave reputation.
—Al-Hariri, c. 1108Play, wherein persons of condition, especially ladies, waste so much of their time, is a plain instance to me that men cannot be perfectly idle; they must be doing something, for how else could they sit so many hours toiling at that which generally gives more vexation than delight to people whilst they are actually engaged in it?
—John Locke, 1693We wish away whole years, and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it.
—Joseph Addison, 1711And, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but the truth in masquerade.
—Lord Byron, 1822’Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables?
—Thomas Browne, 1642So many men, so many opinions.
—Terence, 161 BCMidnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell!
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1843Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies.
—H.L. Mencken, 1925