The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871
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By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.
—Henry Miller, 1945All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.
—James Joyce, 1939There is no small pleasure in sweet water.
—Ovid, c. 10Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture, to us, and a mirror.
—Alain de Lille, c. 1200The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
—Horace, c. 25 BCThere is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is better, only the god knows.
—Socrates, 399 BCO flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596Man is a troublesome animal and therefore is not very manageable.
—Plato, c. 349 BCWhat a man does abroad by night requires and implies more deliberate energy than what he is encouraged to do in the sunshine.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1852