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Quotes

Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.

—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957

Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1856

Exile lacks the grandeur, the majesty, of expatriation.

—Bharati Mukherjee, 1999

France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

—Mark Twain, 1879

Journalists belong in the gutter, because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.

—Gerald Priestland, 1988

If the people be the governors, who shall be governed?

—John Cotton, c. 1636

Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children. 

—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330

He who would be happy should stay at home.

—Greek proverb

Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb

If I played in New York, they’d name a candy bar after me.

—Reggie Jackson, 1976

God walks among the pots and pans.

—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962

So many men, so many opinions.

—Terence, 161 BC