Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.
—Epictetus, c. 100
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Nature never jests.
—Albrecht von Haller, 1751Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich—when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.
—Dionysius of Halicarnassus, c. 20 BCI quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BCCan you draw sweet water from a foul well?
—Brooks Atkinson, 1940Friend! It is a common word, often lightly used. Like other good and beautiful things, it may be tarnished by careless handling.
—Harriet Jacobs, 1861Labor is no disgrace.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCThe freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized as their right when they act in community. Religious communities are a requirement of the social nature both of man and of religion itself.
—Pope Paul VI, 1965Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962Happiness is not something you can catch and lock up in a vault like wealth. Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1939Recreations should be as sauces to your meat, to sharpen your appetite unto the duties of your calling, and not to glut yourselves with them.
—Thomas Gouge, 1672The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985