Seafarers go to sleep in the evening not knowing whether they will find themselves at the bottom of the sea the next morning.
—Jean de Joinville, c. 1305
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The law’s made to take care o’ raskills.
—George Eliot, 1860To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCArt, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1928He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
—Molière, 1666It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
—Upton Sinclair, 1935One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called games.
—W.H. Auden, 1962There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.
—Mark Twain, 1897We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
—John Locke, 1690It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
—Jean de La Fontaine, 1668What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
—Joseph Addison, 1711