Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.
—William Wycherley, 1675
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Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the inclination of your heart and the desire of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 200 BCKeep no company with those whose position is high but whose morals are low.
—Ge Hong, c. 320I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.
—P.G. Wodehouse, 1929Uprootedness is by far the most dangerous malady to which human societies are exposed, for it is a self-propagating one.
—Simone Weil, 1943We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
—Oscar Wilde, 1887Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
—Jane Austen, 1815We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
—Aesop, c. 600 BCI came upon no wine, / So wonderful as thirst.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1923Whatsoever is, is in God.
—Benedict de Spinoza, 1677If I had been born a man, I would have conquered Europe. As I was born a woman, I exhausted my energy in tirades against fate and in eccentricities.
—Marie Bashkirtseff, 1884War has silenced all laws.
—Lucan, c. 65