The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871
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Happiness is no laughing matter.
—Richard Whately, 1843We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
—Arthur Miller, 1961Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972He who sings frightens away his ills.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605“Work” does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or thinker of today. Where the whole man is involved there is no work.
—Marshall McLuhan, 1964When poets don’t know what to say and have completely given up on the play, just like a finger, they lift the machine and the spectators are satisfied.
—Antiphanes, c. 350 BCHave nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
—William Morris, 1882Revolutions never go backward.
—Thomas Skidmore, 1829Drink today and drown all sorrow; / You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.
—John Fletcher, 1625I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1928God is our father, but even more is God our mother.
—Pope John Paul I, 1978