I came upon no wine, / So wonderful as thirst.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1923
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The vice presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss.
—John Nance Garner, c. 1967Quarreling must lead to disorder, and disorder exhaustion.
—Xunzi, c. 250 BCI have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
—Maya Angelou, 1993You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
—Henrik Ibsen, 1882Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.
—Robert P. Hudson, 1983Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCSeek not water, only show you are thirsty, / That water may spring up all around you.
—Rumi, c. 1260Every country has the government it deserves.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1811Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo.
—Matsuo Basho, c. 1685We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1887The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They indeed are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840The man in constant fear is every day condemned.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC