Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1856
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Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825Seafarers go to sleep in the evening not knowing whether they will find themselves at the bottom of the sea the next morning.
—Jean de Joinville, c. 1305A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.
—George Mikes, 1946This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
—Horace, c. 35 BCDo what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
—Aleister Crowley, 1904Where shall I, of wandering weary, find my resting place at last?
—Heinrich Heine, 1827What man was ever content with one crime?
—Juvenal, c. 125Though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.
—Bion of Smyrna, c. 100 BCTime will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.
—Euripides, c. 425 BCThe waters are nature’s storehouse, in which she locks up her wonders.
—Izaak Walton, 1653To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.
—E. R. Dodds, 1951