The oldest voice in the world is the wind.
—Donald Culross Peattie, 1950
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Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
—Hebrews, c. 60A joke is at most a temporary rebellion against virtue, and its aim is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded.
—George Orwell, 1945How sweet it is to have people point and say, “There he is.”
—Persius, c. 60In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
—Voltaire, 1764It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
—The BibleWhat experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1830Moderation in all things.
—Terence, 166 BCThe mere existence of nuclear weapons by the thousands is an incontrovertible sign of human insanity.
—Isaac Asimov, 1988Uprootedness is by far the most dangerous malady to which human societies are exposed, for it is a self-propagating one.
—Simone Weil, 1943Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891I imagined it was more difficult to die.
—Louis XIV, 1715