If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
—Francis Bacon, 1625
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I’ve been on more laps than a napkin.
—Mae WestNature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Whoever has died is freed from sin.
—St. Paul, c. 50The nature of God is a circle, of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
—Empedocles, c. 450 BCMuch money makes a country poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.
—George Herbert, 1640What is life but organized energy?
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1958A world is sooner destroyed than made.
—Thomas Burnet, 1684It is impossible to translate the poets. Can you translate music?
—Voltaire, c. 1732A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
—Ralph Nader, 2000Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations—wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
—Edmund Burke, 1795The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 43 BCI’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?
—Andy Warhol, 1963