As he brews, so shall he drink.
—Ben Jonson, 1598
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Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea. It is down there that the sea folk live.
—Hans Christian Andersen, 1837What reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.
—David Riesman, 1937The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1983Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings.
—Anna Quindlen, 2012Where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
—George Santayana, c. 1905For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCAfrica has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
—Marty Feldman, 1969There never was a good war or a bad peace.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1773Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925Far water cannot quench near fire.
—Japanese proverb