You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.
—Horace, 20 BC
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Recreations should be as sauces to your meat, to sharpen your appetite unto the duties of your calling, and not to glut yourselves with them.
—Thomas Gouge, 1672Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.
—Mark Twain, c. 1900I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.
—Mitch Hedberg, 1999I think that to get under the surface and really appreciate the beauty of any country, one has to go there poor.
—Grace Moore, 1944If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.
—David Sedaris, 2004’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
—Pliny the Elder, c. 77Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work.
—Carl Sandburg, 1959New things are always ugly.
—Willa Cather, 1921When nature is overriden, she takes her revenge.
—Marya Mannes, 1958Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.
—Terence, 161 BC