Whoever gulps down wine as a horse gulps down water is called a Scythian.
—Athenaeus, c. 230
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There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
—Madame de Sévigné, 1671The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849Iron may break gold, but water remains whole.
—Ge Hong, c. 300Our crime against criminals is that we treat them as villains.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1898I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.
—Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1804I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.
—Catherine the Great, c. 1796Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
—George Washington, 1796We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1922Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
—Woody Allen, 1979Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions, as it were, by the way, in the course of their everyday life.
—Elizabeth Charles, 1862My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
—Timothy Leary, 1966