The severity of a teacher is better than the love of a father.
—Saadi, 1258
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No time to marry, no time to settle down, I’m a young woman, and ain’t done runnin’ round.
—Bessie Smith, 1926A crowded police court docket is the surest sign that trade is brisk and money plenty.
—Mark Twain, 1872I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1754Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893Can you take your country with you on the soles of your shoes?
—Georg Büchner, 1835People who’ve drunk neat wine don’t care a damn.
—Hipponax, c. 550 BCFortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1610The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
—Maxim Gorky, 1913Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764One of the animals which a generous and sociable man would soonest become is a dog. A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character; he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow.
—Leigh Hunt, 1834