The drunken man is a living corpse.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 390
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Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BCThe ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986Drink today and drown all sorrow; / You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.
—John Fletcher, 1625Drink does not drown care but waters it, and makes it grow faster.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1749I don’t believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there’s one thing that’s dangerous for an artist, it’s precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.
—Federico Fellini, c. 1950Friendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895Without virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.
—Confucius, c. 350 BCFor, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
—Herman Melville, 1851From the cradle to the coffin, underwear comes first.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1928For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988