By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BC
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Traveling is like gambling: it is ever connected with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1797Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
—William Cecil, Lord Burghley, c. 1555The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, / And drinks, and gapes for drink again.
—Abraham Cowley, 1656The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969Do that which consists in taking no action, and order will prevail.
—Laozi, c. 500 BCThere is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
—Heinrich Heine, 1827An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
—Plato, c. 360 BCWell now, there’s a remedy for everything except death.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986Secrets define us, they mark us, they set us apart from all the others. The secrets which we preserve provide a key to who we are, deep down.
—Nuruddin Farah, 1998A person who sees only fashion in fashion is a fool.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1830