Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
—Saint Augustine, 397
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This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
—Horace, c. 35 BCOne must love people a good deal whom one takes pains to convince or instruct.
—Mary de la Riviere Manley, 1720A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
—Amiri Baraka, 1962Some men never recover from education.
—Oliver St. John Gogarty, 1954When a coward sees a man he can beat, he becomes hungry for a fight.
—Chinua Achebe, 1960Man is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCFriends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1789Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993As usual, what we call “progress” is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
—Havelock Ellis, 1914I’ve dreamed enough to have a drink.
—François Rabelais, 1546Seafarers go to sleep in the evening not knowing whether they will find themselves at the bottom of the sea the next morning.
—Jean de Joinville, c. 1305