The more sifted, the finer the flour; the more often repeated, the rougher the gossip.
—Korean proverb
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The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
—Saint Augustine, c. 390The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.
—David Hume, 1742I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.
—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1940Oil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.
—Peter Hitchcock, 2010Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art—that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944Till taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.
—Lord Byron, 1819Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 30 BCI think we are inexterminable, like flies and bedbugs.
—Robert Frost, 1959Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.
—George Herbert, 1651Though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.
—Bion of Smyrna, c. 100 BCWorry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.
—Solomon ibn Gabirol, 1050