Drink today and drown all sorrow; / You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.
—John Fletcher, 1625
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Good fortune is light as a feather, but nobody knows how to hold it up. Misfortune is heavy as the earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of its way.
—Zhuangzi, c. 300 BCDo you not see how God is praised by those in the heavens and those on earth? The very birds praised Him as they wing their way.
—The Qur’an, c. 620How sad a sight is human happiness to those whose thoughts can pierce beyond an hour!
—Edward Young, 1741Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
—Anatole France, 1881If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence, the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?
—Mary Renault, 1956Journalists belong in the gutter, because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.
—Gerald Priestland, 1988No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.
—Woodrow Wilson, 1915Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
—J. Paul GettyA frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1852No 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, 1706To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma.
—Gretel Ehrlich, 1994