We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf.
—Epicurus, c. 300 BC
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I do love cricket—it’s so very English.
—Sarah Bernhardt, c. 1908If both what is before and what is after are in this same “now,” things which happened ten thousand years ago would be simultaneous with what has happened today, and nothing would be before or after anything else.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCA monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 109The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible.
—Herophilus, c. 290 BCDemocracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
—E.B. White, 1944The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870A true German can’t stand the French, / Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
—John Ruskin, 1856When you drink water, think of its source.
—Chinese proverbReal education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing—the rest is mere sheep herding.
—Ezra Pound, 1934All art is a revolt against man’s fate.
—André Malraux, 1951Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
—E.B. White, 1944