A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BC
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750Profit is profit even in Mecca.
—Nigerian proverbCorporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.
—Chinese proverbHate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.
—Karl Kraus, 1912I would delight in music, but the music is discordant.
—Xie Lingyun, c. 425You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
—Leon TrotskyGod writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin LutherKeep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.
—Anthony Burgess, 1964Is all our fire of shipwreck wood?
—Robert Browning, 1862Keep running after a dog, and he will never bite you.
—François Rabelais, 1535I won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God.
—Madonna, c. 1985The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
—Wendell Berry, 1983