The bathing was so delightful this morning, and Molly so pressing with me to enjoy myself, that I believe I stayed in rather too long, as since the middle of the day I have felt unreasonably tired. I shall be more careful another time, and shall not bathe tomorrow as I had before intended.
—Jane Austen, 1804
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Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth, or the Gout will seize you.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1734Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.
—Horace, 20 BCUntil you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
—Margaret Mitchell, 1936Slang is as old as speech and the congregating together of people in cities. It is the result of crowding and excitement and artificial life.
—John Camden Hotten, 1859Too often, where we need water we find guns.
—Ban Ki-moon, 2008Guard more faithfully the secret which is confided to you than the money which is entrusted to your care.
—Isocrates, c. 370 BCIn my dreams I sleep with everybody.
—Anaïs Nin, 1933Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
—Anatole France, 1881It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
—The BibleThe fear of war is worse than war itself.
—Seneca, c. 50The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.
—Juvenal, c. 125