If you have any soul worth expressing, it will show itself in your singing.
—John Ruskin, 1865
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Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.
—Benjamin Franklin, c. 1732Appearances often are deceiving.
—Aesop, c. 550 BCSobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
—William James, 1902The drunken man is a living corpse.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 390If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended—and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.
—Robert Frost, 1939It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street.
—Mary Lease, c. 1890To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbWhenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
—Gore Vidal, 1973Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
—B.F. Skinner, 1964Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747I began revolution with eighty-two men. If I had to do it again, I do it with ten or fifteen and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
—Fidel Castro, 1959