Don’t lose your mind unless you have paid for it.
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957
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Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1856Exile lacks the grandeur, the majesty, of expatriation.
—Bharati Mukherjee, 1999France has neither winter, summer, nor morals—apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
—Mark Twain, 1879Journalists belong in the gutter, because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.
—Gerald Priestland, 1988If the people be the governors, who shall be governed?
—John Cotton, c. 1636Even members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.
—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330He who would be happy should stay at home.
—Greek proverbNot all heads have a brain.
—French proverbIf I played in New York, they’d name a candy bar after me.
—Reggie Jackson, 1976God walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962So many men, so many opinions.
—Terence, 161 BC