Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605
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If the heavens were all parchment, and the trees of the forest all pens, and every human being were a scribe, it would still be impossible to record all that I have learned from my teachers.
—Jochanan ben Zakkai, c. 75The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.
—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.
—George Herbert, 1651Whole nations have melted away like balls of snow before the sun.
—Dragging Canoe, 1775The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1843Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
—Joseph Stalin, 1934The mere existence of nuclear weapons by the thousands is an incontrovertible sign of human insanity.
—Isaac Asimov, 1988Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.
—Albert Camus, 1942Drink does not drown care but waters it, and makes it grow faster.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1749All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BC