As he brews, so shall he drink.
—Ben Jonson, 1598
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I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That’s what sitting on your ass does to your face.
—Leonard Cohen, 1970The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871Television is democracy at its ugliest.
—Paddy Chayefsky, 1976Some men never recover from education.
—Oliver St. John Gogarty, 1954The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
—Saint Augustine, c. 390Friends are ourselves.
—John Donne, 1603How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do.
—William James, 1902Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.
—Epictetus, c. 100What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
—Molière, 1666Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938