He who has nothing has no friends.
—Greek proverb
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How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort in a hospital.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1857Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men, but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
—Joseph Addison, 1711At night comes counsel to the wise.
—Menander, c. 300 BCWhenever there is excess, an ax remedies it.
—Sumerian proverbWhen a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.
—Francis Bacon, 1625All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
—Al Smith, 1933I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976Seek not water, only show you are thirsty, / That water may spring up all around you.
—Rumi, c. 1260Keep running after a dog, and he will never bite you.
—François Rabelais, 1535Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1973Good men must not obey the laws too well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844