When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
—Alice Hegan Rice, 1917
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, / And say my glory was I had such friends.
—W.B. Yeats, 1937Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant—democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
—Bertrand Russell, 1961Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600Think rich. Look poor.
—Andy Warhol, 1975Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
—Samuel Johnson, c. 1770If a king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.
—Mencius, c. 330 BCNo wise man ever wished to be younger.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706A miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.
—Emmanuel Lévinas, 1952Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCThe man in constant fear is every day condemned.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCThe sea serves the pirate as well as the trader.
—Prudentius, c. 405