A good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.
—Ben Jonson, 1633
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Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
—Fanny Burney, 1782Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.
—Charles de Gaulle, 1963I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
—Coretta Scott King, 1994Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.
—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913If the people be the governors, who shall be governed?
—John Cotton, c. 1636God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
—J.M. Barrie, 1922I never even saw the use of the sea. Many a sad heart has it caused, and many a sick stomach has it occasioned! The boldest sailor climbs on board with a heavy soul and leaps on land with a light spirit.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1827When you drink water, think of its source.
—Chinese proverbWhenever there is excess, an ax remedies it.
—Sumerian proverbHe that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCFrom the cradle to the coffin, underwear comes first.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1928Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.
—Malcolm X, 1964