The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615
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There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.
—Helen Keller, 1928Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
—Samuel Johnson, c. 1770Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1940What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841It is noble to die before doing anything that deserves death.
—Anaxandrides, c. 376If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper that did his job well.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1954The first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.
—Umberto Eco, 1980Had Cleopatra’s nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have changed.
—Blaise Pascal, 1658Best is water.
—Pindar, 476 BCWhat is the city but the people?
—William Shakespeare, 1608That which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want to ascertain a man’s true character, make him drunk.
—Martin Luther, 1569The men of today are born to criticize; of Achilles they see only the heel.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880