To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverb
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At night comes counsel to the wise.
—Menander, c. 300 BCSpring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of birdsong.
—Rachel Carson, 1962I have always been of the mind that in a democracy, manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie knife.
—James Russell Lowell, 1873It is remarkable that only small birds properly sing.
—Charles Darwin, 1871He who would be happy should stay at home.
—Greek proverbFrom hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.
—Herman Melville, 1851Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
—Plato, c. 378 BCWhoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
—Samuel Johnson, c. 1770A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCWhen poets don’t know what to say and have completely given up on the play, just like a finger, they lift the machine and the spectators are satisfied.
—Antiphanes, c. 350 BCA righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The Bible