What timid man does not avoid contact with the sick, fearing lest he contract a disease so near?
—Ovid, c. 10
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The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1838The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended—and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.
—Robert Frost, 1939We do not suffer by accident.
—Jane Austen, 1813The more sifted, the finer the flour; the more often repeated, the rougher the gossip.
—Korean proverbI would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
—Cato the Elder, c. 184 BCTravelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.
—Richard Brathwaite, 1631To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
—William Hazlitt, 1823If a king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.
—Mencius, c. 330 BCMusic melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
—Anaïs Nin, 1939Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
—Francis Bacon, 1625The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.
—Nell Scovell, 1991