Never greet a stranger in the night, for he may be a demon.
—Babylonian Talmud, c. 600
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Can you take your country with you on the soles of your shoes?
—Georg Büchner, 1835Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.
—William Wycherley, 1675All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890Yes to a market economy, no to a market society.
—Lionel Jospin, 1998We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
—Barbara Ward, 1972No wise man ever wished to be younger.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706Tomorrow we take to the mighty sea.
—Horace, 23 BCFortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1610The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
—Albert Einstein, 1936Memories are hunting horns
whose noise dies away in the wind.
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
—Pearl S. Buck, 1943