Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
—Saint Augustine, 397
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When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
—Winston Churchill, 1945One great reason why many children abandon themselves wholly to silly sports and trifle away all their time insipidly is because they have found their curiosity baulked and their inquiries neglected.
—John Locke, 1693People revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.
—Robert Byrd, 2005In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.
—John Ruskin, 1850I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1679At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175The sole business of a seaman onshore who has to go to sea again is to take as much pleasure as he can.
—Leigh Hunt, 1820Without music life would be a mistake.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
—Jane Austen, 1811