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To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the need for thought.

—Henri Poincaré, 1903

Some nights are like honey—and some like wine—and some like wormwood.

—L.M. Montgomery, 1927

I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

—Alexander the Great, c. 323 BC

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

—Joseph Addison, 1711

Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge.

—Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, 1654

Who sleepeth with dogs shall rise with fleas.

—John Florio, 1578

The land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

—The Bible

Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.

—Virginia Woolf, 1899

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body, to try the manners of different nations, to hear the chimes at midnight.

—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881

I proclaim night more truthful than the day.

—Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1956

Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.

—La Rochefoucauld, 1665

Abstainer, n. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

Idolatry is the mother of all games.

—Novatian, c. 255