Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
—Lucretius, c. 58 BC
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Drunkenness is the very sepulcher / Of man’s wit and his discretion.
—Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1390I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
—Maya Angelou, 1993He who laugheth too much, hath the nature of a fool; he that laugheth not at all, hath the nature of an old cat.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Till taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.
—Lord Byron, 1819To outwit an enemy is not only just and glorious but profitable and sweet.
—Plutarch, c. 100When arms speak, the laws are silent.
—Cicero, 52 BCSlang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work.
—Carl Sandburg, 1959Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
—Charles Baudelaire, c. 1865I think it makes small difference to the dead if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All this is an empty glorification left for those who live.
—Euripides, 415 BCThere never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
—Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1714When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
—Winston Churchill, 1945