Some men never recover from education.
—Oliver St. John Gogarty, 1954
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It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.
—Horace, 19 BCLabor is no disgrace.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCSeek not water, only show you are thirsty, / That water may spring up all around you.
—Rumi, c. 1260Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
—Amiri Baraka, 1962We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
—Myrtle Reed, 1910Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967Seafarers go to sleep in the evening not knowing whether they will find themselves at the bottom of the sea the next morning.
—Jean de Joinville, c. 1305Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.
—Eva Perón, 1949The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCTime rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
—Tennessee Williams, 1951