As bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character.
—David Sedaris, 1997
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The sole business of a seaman onshore who has to go to sea again is to take as much pleasure as he can.
—Leigh Hunt, 1820Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverbOur enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
—George W. Bush, 2004We and the dead ride quick at night.
—Gottfried August Bürger, 1773Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.
—Mary Baker Eddy, 1908We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
—Oscar Wilde, 1887If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BCOf my friends, I am the only one I have left.
—Terence, 161 BCOne man’s loss is another man’s profit.
—Michel de Montaigne, c. 1580One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911It is one thing to slander, another to accuse.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 56 BCBe courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
—George Washington, 1783