A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper that did his job well.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1954If I played in New York, they’d name a candy bar after me.
—Reggie Jackson, 1976A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
—Ralph Nader, 2000Each night’s new terror drives away the terror of the night before.
—Sophocles, c. 450 BCIt is not my design to drink or sleep; my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
—Oliver Cromwell, 1658Life isn’t all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman’s education.
—Thomas Hughes, 1857I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
—Basho, c. 1690Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.
—Derek Walcott, 1986One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
—George Santayana, c. 1914