I have always been of the mind that in a democracy, manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie knife.
—James Russell Lowell, 1873
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
—Francis Bacon, 1625Recreations should be as sauces to your meat, to sharpen your appetite unto the duties of your calling, and not to glut yourselves with them.
—Thomas Gouge, 1672Well now, there’s a remedy for everything except death.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605If the people be the governors, who shall be governed?
—John Cotton, c. 1636I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.
—Mitch Hedberg, 1999Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain there would be no life.
—John Updike, 1989I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
—Anaïs Nin, 1950Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.
—Andy Warhol, 1975Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture, to us, and a mirror.
—Alain de Lille, c. 1200We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.
—Abraham the Jew, c. 1400