A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
—Ethiopian proverb
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War is the child of pride, and pride the daughter of riches.
—Jonathan Swift, 1697It seems to me that we all look at nature too much and live with her too little.
—Oscar Wilde, 1897To hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat.
—Milan Kundera, 1978How sad a sight is human happiness to those whose thoughts can pierce beyond an hour!
—Edward Young, 1741Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1940The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honor or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.
—Carl Sandburg, 1936The dead are often just as living to us as the living are, only we cannot get them to believe it. They can come to us, but till we die we cannot go to them. To be dead is to be unable to understand that one is alive.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1888Be courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
—George Washington, 1783The best way to fill time is to waste it.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1787To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1885