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As bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character.

—David Sedaris, 1997

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, 1820

Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb

Our 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, 2004

We and the dead ride quick at night. 

—Gottfried August Bürger, 1773

Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.

—Mary Baker Eddy, 1908

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

—Oscar Wilde, 1887

If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.

—Horace, 20 BC

Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.

—Terence, 161 BC

One man’s loss is another man’s profit.

—Michel de Montaigne, c. 1580

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

—Elbert Hubbard, 1911

It is one thing to slander, another to accuse.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 56 BC

Be courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

—George Washington, 1783