Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BC
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The more sifted, the finer the flour; the more often repeated, the rougher the gossip.
—Korean proverbEvery communist must grasp the truth: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
—Mao Zedong, 1938I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.
—Thomas Malory, c. 1470An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BCThere’s hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1754The world is wearied of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1870Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
—Cormac McCarthy, 2005The future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60