When the abbot throws the dice, the whole convent will play.
—Martin Luther, c. 1540
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It costs a lot of money to be rich.
—Peter Boyle, 2002We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
—Henry Adams, 1907The sea yields action to the body, meditation to the mind, the world to the world, all parts thereof to each part, by this art of arts—navigation.
—Samuel Purchas, 1613Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
—Xunzi, 250 BCSobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
—William James, 1902There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1965A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
—Ethiopian proverbIf you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.
—David Sedaris, 2004If law and justice do not attain their ends, the people will be unable to move hand or foot.
—Confucius, c. 500I was born without knowing why, I have lived without knowing why, and I am dying without either knowing why or how.
—Pierre Gassendi, 1655