The most may err as grossly as the few.
—John Dryden, 1681
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935There’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!
—Rachel Field, 1939This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.
—Tony Blair, 2006One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929’Tis a portentous sign / When a man sweats and at the same time shivers.
—Plautus, c. 180 BCHuman history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
—H.G. Wells, 1920Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
—George Washington, 1783Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the inclination of your heart and the desire of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 200 BCAn ugly sight, a man who’s afraid.
—Jean Anouilh, 1944To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!
—Philip Roth, 1969A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated has not the art of getting drunk.
—Samuel Johnson, 1779