Quotes

When you drink water, think of its source.

—Chinese proverb

Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

—Veronica Wedgwood, 1946

No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.

—Woodrow Wilson, 1915

You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.

—Bill Clinton, 1996

I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.

—Mae West

Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

—George Washington, 1783

To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.

—Seneca the Younger, c. 45

Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.

—Book of Job, c. 600 BC

Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.

—Cicero, c. 45 BC

For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.

—Petronius, c. 60

I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

—Phyllis Diller, 1981

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.

—Charles Baudelaire, 1897

The more laws, the more lawbreakers.

—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BC

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