When you drink water, think of its source.
—Chinese proverb
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
—Latin proverbYour worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.
—The Dhammapada, c. 400 BCDisbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
—Tom Robbins, 1976Imitate the ass in his love to his master.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 388The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and, secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1879You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
—Henrik Ibsen, 1882Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8There is a demon who puts wings on certain tales and launches them like eagles out into space.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1846The more religious a country is, the more crimes are committed in it.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1817I have always found it in mine own experience an easier matter to devise many and profitable inventions than to dispose of one of them to the good of the author himself.
—Hugh Plat, 1595I think we are inexterminable, like flies and bedbugs.
—Robert Frost, 1959No 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, 1706