When you name yourself, you always name another.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1926
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Friendship! Sir, there can be no such thing without an equality.
—George Farquhar, 1702Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738War is fear cloaked in courage.
—William Westmoreland, 1966Suffering has its limit, but fears are endless.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 108The great difficulty lies in trying to transpose last night’s moment to a day which has no knowledge of it.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942The young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
—Francis Bacon, 1625It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580A 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, 1945The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, / And drinks, and gapes for drink again.
—Abraham Cowley, 1656Spit not in the well; you may have to drink its water.
—French proverb