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
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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889Who sleepeth with dogs shall rise with fleas.
—John Florio, 1578I curse the night, yet doth from day me hide.
—William Drummond, 1616Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.
—Homer, c. 750 BCThe appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
—Myrtle Reed, 1910The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.
—Wallace Stevens, 1952We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time’s carcass.
—Karl Marx, 1847When law can do no right,
Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
’Tis the destroyer, or the devil, that scatters plagues about the world.
—Cotton Mather, 1693Society as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school.
—Che Guevara, 1965Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986In every man is a wild beast; most of them don’t know how to hold it back, and the majority give it full rein when they are not restrained by terror of law.
—Frederick the Great, 1759