From the cradle to the coffin, underwear comes first.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1928
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.
—Pablo Picasso, 1929The law is established from above but becomes custom below.
—Su Zhe, c. 1100No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.
—Magna Carta, 1215There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
—Elias Canetti, 1960The drunken man is a living corpse.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 390Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.
—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BCThere is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
—Francis Bacon, 1625What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
—Henry Adams, 1907Spit not in the well; you may have to drink its water.
—French proverbI am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1928Without music life would be a mistake.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889