Jesters do oft prove prophets.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1605
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If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.
—George W. Bush, 2005Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
—Mencius, 300 BCThat obtained in youth may endure like characters engraved in stones.
—Ibn Gabirol, 1040The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
—Henry Fielding, 1730Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1973I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.
—Walt Whitman, 1842Fear is a poor guarantor of a long life.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44If I lose at play, I blaspheme, and if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So that God is always sure to be the loser.
—John Donne, 1623If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1843Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury—to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
—Albert Einstein, 1931O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599No wise man ever wished to be younger.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706