Friend! It is a common word, often lightly used. Like other good and beautiful things, it may be tarnished by careless handling.
—Harriet Jacobs, 1861
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The whole secret of fencing consists but in two things, to give and not to receive.
—Molière, 1670A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated has not the art of getting drunk.
—Samuel Johnson, 1779Iron may break gold, but water remains whole.
—Ge Hong, c. 300Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.
—George Gershwin, 1933Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCI wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm’s way.
—John Paul Jones, 1778In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1830Kings and fools know no law.
—German proverbColonialism has meant selling our ore and being left with the holes.
—Samora Moisés Machel, c. 1976To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma.
—Gretel Ehrlich, 1994Jests and scoffs do lessen majesty and greatness and should be far from great personages and men of wisdom.
—Henry Peacham, 1622Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it, and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1790