Drink does not drown care but waters it, and makes it grow faster.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1749
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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
—Plotinus, c. 255All those who suffer in the world do so because of their desire for their own happiness.
—Shantideva, c. 750Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
—Sammy Davis Jr., 1965Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1886The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.
—Tacitus, c. 117What touches all shall be approved by all.
—Edward I, 1295Before the earth could become an industrial garbage can, it had first to become a research laboratory.
—Theodore Roszak, 1972I’ve got some shit I’m conservative about and some shit I’m liberal about. Crime—I’m conservative. Prostitution—I’m liberal.
—Chris Rock, 2008The law is far, the fist is near.
—Korean proverbHistory in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another.
—Ellsworth Huntington, 1919The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.
—LaoziHuman happiness never remains long in the same place.
—Herodotus, c. 430 BC