Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
—Book of Job, c. 600 BC
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The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible.
—Herophilus, c. 290 BCThere must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.
—Sylvia Plath, 1963The boy is, of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.
—Plato, c. 348 BCEverything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.
—Joseph Joubert, 1791Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.
—Mark Twain, c. 1900The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1787If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1843Being thus arrived in good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stale earth, their proper element.
—William Bradford, 1630Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009A shopkeeper will never get the more custom by beating his customers; and what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation.
—Josiah Tucker, 1766Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
—Bill Clinton, 1996