The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, / And drinks, and gapes for drink again.
—Abraham Cowley, 1656
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Far water cannot quench near fire.
—Japanese proverbDespotism subjects a nation to one tyrant—democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839All people have the common desire to be elevated in honor, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
—Mencius, c. 330 BCThe only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and, secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1879The 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, 1580Let us leave this Europe which never stops talking of Man yet massacres him at every one of its street corners, at every corner of the world.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961Till taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.
—Lord Byron, 1819Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.
—Juvenal, 128I came upon no wine, / So wonderful as thirst.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1923Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCThe best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BC