He knows the water best who has waded through it.
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890The people are the foundation of the state. If the foundations are firm, the state will be tranquil.
—Classic of History, c. 400 BCTime is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820To live outside the law you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.
—Gregory VII, c. 1085There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738