He laughs best who laughs last.
—French proverb
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Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
—Calvin Coolidge, 1932What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807There lurks in every human heart a desire of distinction which inclines every man first to hope and then to believe that nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
—Samuel Johnson, 1763There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is better, only the god knows.
—Socrates, 399 BCWe often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
—Aesop, c. 600 BCWords pay no debts.
—William Shakespeare, 1601It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
—Jean de La Fontaine, 1668The oldest voice in the world is the wind.
—Donald Culross Peattie, 1950Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.
—Mark Twain, c. 1900Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
—Marcel Marceau, 1958A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BC