If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.
—Congolese proverb
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
—W.H. Auden, 1957I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
—Lord Byron, 1813For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
—Erich Fromm, 1941Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BCThose who are awake have a world that is one and common, but each of those who are asleep turns aside into his own particular world.
—Heraclitus, c. 500 BCIn the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
—Colette, 1944My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946There is no small pleasure in sweet water.
—Ovid, c. 10If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003Language is the house of being. In its home human beings dwell. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.
—Martin Heidegger, 1949