He knows the water best who has waded through it.
—Danish proverb
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Home is wherever I go.
—Indira Gandhi, 1955A friend in power is a friend lost.
—Henry Adams, 1905The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCLife is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.
—Horace Walpole, 1784Lord, I do not ask that thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1898Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.
—Voltaire, 1764In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.
—Thomas Szasz, 1970Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with the necessities.
—John Lothrop Motley, 1858Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580It is a luxury to be understood.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1831Cities are the abyss of the human species.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762