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It is very foolish to attack one’s enemy openly if one can injure him in secret.

—Giambattista Giraldi, 1543

Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.

—Arthur Griffiths, 1899

Your mind’s got to eat, too.

—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978

Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.

—William Cecil, Lord Burghley, c. 1555

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men, but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

—Joseph Addison, 1711

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.

—Dolly Parton, 2003

Men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, c. 50 BC

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

—Aristotle, c. 330 BC

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar, and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

—Olive Schreiner, 1883

I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.

—Catherine the Great, c. 1796

The sea is mother-death, and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.

—Anne Sexton, 1971