Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889
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To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbWhat timid man does not avoid contact with the sick, fearing lest he contract a disease so near?
—Ovid, c. 10However harmless a thing is, if the law forbids it, most people will think it wrong.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896Keep running after a dog, and he will never bite you.
—François Rabelais, 1535I do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
—William Cecil, Lord Burghley, c. 1555A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1897Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
—Sydney Smith, 1855The men of today are born to criticize; of Achilles they see only the heel.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work.
—Carl Sandburg, 1959The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911