Drink does not drown care but waters it, and makes it grow faster.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1749
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
—Bertrand Russell, 1961Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.
—Rudy Giuliani, 1999At the start there’s always energy.
—Suzan-Lori Parks, 2006The righteous know the needs of their animals, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 500 BCIf a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
—Francis Bacon, 1625No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915Oil! Our secret god, our secret sharer, our magic wand, fulfiller of our every desire, our coconspirator, the sine qua non in all we do!
—Margaret Atwood, 2015I was born without knowing why, I have lived without knowing why, and I am dying without either knowing why or how.
—Pierre Gassendi, 1655The more sifted, the finer the flour; the more often repeated, the rougher the gossip.
—Korean proverbGo to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCI cannot live without books, but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1815Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949