The worship of opinion is, at this day, the established religion of the United States.
—Harriet Martineau, 1839
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One’s body, hair, and skin are a gift from one’s parents—do not dare to allow them to be harmed.
—Classic of Filial Piety, c. 200 BCSoldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
—William Cecil, Lord Burghley, c. 1555I would delight in music, but the music is discordant.
—Xie Lingyun, c. 425If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BCNo punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
—Hannah Arendt, 1963What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807Commerce has made all winds her ministers.
—John Sterling, 1843If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.
—George Herbert, 1651Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called games.
—W.H. Auden, 1962There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
—Mark Twain, 1894