The earth is our existence, and our body is attached to the earth.
—Daulat Qazi, c. 1650
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Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899Without virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.
—Confucius, c. 350 BCIf the heavens were all parchment, and the trees of the forest all pens, and every human being were a scribe, it would still be impossible to record all that I have learned from my teachers.
—Jochanan ben Zakkai, c. 75In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1787Under 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, 1795Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
—Samuel Johnson, c. 1770’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595God is alive. Magic is afoot.
—Leonard Cohen, 1966He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.
—E. R. Dodds, 1951Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.
—Henry Clay, 1842