A false report rides post.
—English proverb
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Who lives in fear will never be a free man.
—Horace, 19 BCHow to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do.
—William James, 1902No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
—George Sand, 1851He who laugheth too much, hath the nature of a fool; he that laugheth not at all, hath the nature of an old cat.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Man and animals are really the conduit of food, the sepulcher of animals, and resting place of the dead, one causing the death of the other, making themselves the covering for the corruption of other dead bodies.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.
—E.M. Forster, 1910The law is established from above but becomes custom below.
—Su Zhe, c. 1100They say, “We only have the life of this world. We die and we live, and nothing destroys us but time.” Yet, not true knowledge have they of this—only belief.
—The Qur’an, c. 620Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
—Patricia Highsmith, 1960He who would be happy should stay at home.
—Greek proverbFamous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
—Brigitte Bardot, 1989