Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth, or the Gout will seize you.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1734
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Drink does not drown care but waters it, and makes it grow faster.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1749Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1610Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
—Charles Dickens, 1843The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903After midnight the moon set and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.
—Amelia Earhart, 1935After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
—John Huston, 1950The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.
—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for thought.
—Henri Poincaré, 1903