There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
—Homer, c. 750 BC
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A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCThere must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.
—Sylvia Plath, 1963You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
—Mario Cuomo, 1985I ride rough waters and shall sink with no one to save me.
—Virginia Woolf, 1931Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1758Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
—Mencius, 300 BCWhen law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595The universe is an object of thought at least as much as it is a means of satisfying needs.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCEnvy and hatred are apt to blind the eyes and render them unable to behold things as they are.
—Margaret of Valois, c. 1600