Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735
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Friendships begin with liking or gratitude—roots that can be pulled up.
—George Eliot, 1876Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.
—Charles de Gaulle, 1963Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.
—Hans Zinsser, 1935As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BC“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
—George Eliot, 1866To outwit an enemy is not only just and glorious but profitable and sweet.
—Plutarch, c. 100Friends are ourselves.
—John Donne, 1603No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
—Abraham LincolnWhat a man does abroad by night requires and implies more deliberate energy than what he is encouraged to do in the sunshine.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1852The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
—Aristotle, c. 322 BCThe only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.
—Hunter S. Thompson, 1971