There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
—John Locke, 1689
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A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert, 1640The true mission of American sports is to prepare young men for war.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower, c. 1952Every house: temple, empire, school.
—Joseph Joubert, 1800Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889War is fear cloaked in courage.
—William Westmoreland, 1966Appearances often are deceiving.
—Aesop, c. 550 BCWhen great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1918When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957There is no greater disaster than not to know contentment.
—Laozi, c. 550 BCWherever commerce prevails there will be an inequality of wealth, and wherever the latter does a simplicity of manners must decline.
—James Madison, 1783Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.
—Frantz Fanon, 1952