And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855
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Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.
—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCIt is hell to belong to a suppressed minority.
—Claude McKay, 1937We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1928I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.
—Jane Austen, c. 1798Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the king’s horses.
—Gnomologia, 1732If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
—Dorothy ParkerWhen you drink water, think of its source.
—Chinese proverbI drink for the thirst to come.
—François Rabelais, 1535Do you suppose it possible to know democracy without knowing the people?
—Xenophon, c. 370 BCLuck takes the step that no one sees.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCThe most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870