From the cradle to the coffin, underwear comes first.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1928
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1908Keep no company with those whose position is high but whose morals are low.
—Ge Hong, c. 320If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
—Margaret Atwood, 2005Traveling is like gambling: it is ever connected with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1797A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
—P.D. James, 1992Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.
—Rebecca West, 1912The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
—François Guizot, 1830It is permitted to learn even from an enemy.
—Ovid, c. 8Had Cleopatra’s nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have changed.
—Blaise Pascal, 1658Best is water.
—Pindar, 476 BCPride and excess bring disaster for man.
—Xunzi, 250 BCUnder the wide and starry sky, / Dig the grave and let me lie.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887