Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751
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Repetition is the mother of education.
—Jean Paul, 1807Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?
—Aristophanes, 423 BCNo families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1860Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.
—Demosthenes, 349 BCLabor is no disgrace.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCSome nights are like honey—and some like wine—and some like wormwood.
—L.M. Montgomery, 1927He knows the water best who has waded through it.
—Danish proverbWhoever gulps down wine as a horse gulps down water is called a Scythian.
—Athenaeus, c. 230The deed is everything, the glory naught.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595