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—John Donne, 1603
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Jests and scoffs do lessen majesty and greatness and should be far from great personages and men of wisdom.
—Henry Peacham, 1622Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.
—Solomon ibn Gabirol, 1050Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.
—Charles de Gaulle, 1963Good fortune is light as a feather, but nobody knows how to hold it up. Misfortune is heavy as the earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of its way.
—Zhuangzi, c. 300 BCDo not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.
—Romalyn Ante, 2020The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the Church.
—Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1510There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
—Homer, c. 750 BCA private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615The law looks at no one’s face.
—Gabriel Okara, 1964I have always found it in mine own experience an easier matter to devise many and profitable inventions than to dispose of one of them to the good of the author himself.
—Hugh Plat, 1595The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BC