A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BC
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A fair complexion is unbecoming to a sailor: he ought to be swarthy from the waters of the sea and the rays of the sun.
—Ovid, c. 1 BCWho sleepeth with dogs shall rise with fleas.
—John Florio, 1578Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbA large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
—Aldous Huxley, 1934Good men must not obey the laws too well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
—Sigmund Freud, 1927Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
—Hebrews, c. 60Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
—William Hazlitt, 1819A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1944The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward VIII, 1957No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.
—Emma Goldman, 1917Man’s great mission is not to conquer nature by main force but to cooperate with her intelligently but lovingly for his own purposes.
—Lewis Mumford, 1962