The law’s made to take care o’ raskills.
—George Eliot, 1860
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The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
—Robert Benchley, 1935Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910There’s folks ’ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.
—George Eliot, 1859The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919When poets don’t know what to say and have completely given up on the play, just like a finger, they lift the machine and the spectators are satisfied.
—Antiphanes, c. 350 BCI have yet, I believe, some years in store, for I have a good state of health and a happy mind, and I take care of both by nourishing the first with temperance and the latter with abundance. This, I believe, you will allow to be the true philosophy of life.
—Thomas Paine, 1803They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
—Francis Bacon, 1605Home is wherever I go.
—Indira Gandhi, 1955