If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812
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The self is like an infant: given free rein, it craves to suckle.
—al-Busiri, c. 1250When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957Happiness is a warm puppy.
—Charles Schulz, 1971Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.
—Benjamin Franklin, c. 1732The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
—Galen, c. 175Some men never recover from education.
—Oliver St. John Gogarty, 1954War has silenced all laws.
—Lucan, c. 65When the physician said to him, “You have lived to be an old man,” he said, “That is because I never employed you as my physician.”
—Pausanias, c. 450 BCA man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated has not the art of getting drunk.
—Samuel Johnson, 1779Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
—Herman Melville, 1851Even a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977