The mill will never grind with water that is past.
—Daniel McCallum, 1870
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Moderation in all things.
—Terence, 166 BCNothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
—Aphra Behn, 1677Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1937Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978The human working stock is of interest only insofar as it is profitable.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1970If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
—Margaret Atwood, 2005The brightest light burns the quickest.
—Olive Beatrice Muir, 1900The best way to fill time is to waste it.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
—Chinua Achebe, 1958War is the child of pride, and pride the daughter of riches.
—Jonathan Swift, 1697The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919