There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
—Francis Bacon, 1625
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The drunken man is a living corpse.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 390This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
—Abraham Lincoln, 1861The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
—Laurence Sterne, 1760There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
—Elias Canetti, 1960No poems can please long, nor live, that are written by water drinkers.
—Horace, 35 BCMan is the one name belonging to every nation upon earth: there is one soul and many tongues, one spirit and various sounds; every country has its own speech, but the subjects of speech are common to all.
—Tertullian, c. 217That obtained in youth may endure like characters engraved in stones.
—Ibn Gabirol, 1040Medication alone is not to be relied on. In one half the cases medicine is not needed, or is worse than useless. Obedience to spiritual and physical laws—hygiene of the body and hygiene of the spirit—is the surest warrant for health and happiness.
—Harriot K. Hunt, 1856All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. War is hell.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1879The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.
—Molière, 1666