The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935
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One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.
—Winston Churchill, 1943The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.
—William Wycherley, 1675We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf.
—Epicurus, c. 300 BCThe only equals are those who are equally rich.
—Burundian proverbAnd to our age’s drowsy blood / Still shouts the inspiring sea.
—James Russell Lowell, 1848The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.
—P.G. Wodehouse, 1929Man punishes the action, but God the intention.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
—Tertullian, c. 215A sick child is always the mother’s property; her own feelings generally make it so.
—Jane Austen, 1816We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.
—Winston Churchill, 1948