Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.
—Juvenal, c. 121
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Spit not in the well; you may have to drink its water.
—French proverbArt is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1940Fear has a smell, as love does.
—Margaret Atwood, 1972Let 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, 1889Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.
—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BCEducation—a debt due from present to future generations.
—George Peabody, 1852Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCFame is but the empty noise of madmen.
—Epictetus, c. 100If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706Drive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back.
—Horace, c. 25 BCTo be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion—a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge. One may have that condition by fits only.
—George Eliot, c. 1872