The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580
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He knows the water best who has waded through it.
—Danish proverbThe thirsty earth soaks up the rain, / And drinks, and gapes for drink again.
—Abraham Cowley, 1656No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
—George Sand, 1851Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCReal education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing—the rest is mere sheep herding.
—Ezra Pound, 1934Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.
—George Gershwin, 1933Death from the bubonic plague is rated, with crucifixion, among the nastiest human experiences of all.
—Guy R. Williams, 1975Like a broken gong be still, be silent. Know the stillness of freedom where there is no more striving.
—Siddhartha Gautama, c. 500 BCDisease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
—Frederick Douglass, 1852