Men are merriest when they are from home.
—William Shakespeare, 1599
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To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCThe chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
—Galen, c. 175The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.
—Juvenal, c. 121Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
—William Morris, 1882One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
—Julia Child, 2001Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe—though we didn’t know it at the time.
—Susan Sontag, 1973Don’t ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.
—Colette, 1944Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838All law is of necessity defective in the beginning.
—Han Yu, c. 800One man’s loss is another man’s profit.
—Michel de Montaigne, c. 1580