He who would have clear water should go to the fountainhead.
—Italian proverb
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I wants to make your flesh creep.
—Charles Dickens, 1837“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
—André Gide, 1926Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
—Voltaire, 1770God is making commerce his missionary.
—Joseph Cook, c. 1877Strangers are an endangered species.
—Adrienne Rich, 1980By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCA difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
—George Eliot, 1876The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871Words pay no debts.
—William Shakespeare, 1601Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body, to try the manners of different nations, to hear the chimes at midnight.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.
—John Maynard Keynes, 1917