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  1. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

    His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools — the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans — and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, “You can’t trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there’s nothing you can do about it, so let’s have a drink.”

    Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
    Discworld No. 13, Small Gods (1992)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/4504…

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  2. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

    His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools — the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans — and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, “You can’t trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there’s nothing you can do about it, so let’s have a drink.”

    Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
    Discworld No. 13, Small Gods (1992)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/4504…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #acceptance #distrust #drinking #enjoyment #mistrust #philosophy #trust #wisdom

  3. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

    His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools — the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans — and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, “You can’t trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there’s nothing you can do about it, so let’s have a drink.”

    Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
    Discworld No. 13, Small Gods (1992)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/4504…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #acceptance #distrust #drinking #enjoyment #mistrust #philosophy #trust #wisdom

  4. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

    His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools — the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans — and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, “You can’t trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there’s nothing you can do about it, so let’s have a drink.”

    Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
    Discworld No. 13, Small Gods (1992)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/4504…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #acceptance #distrust #drinking #enjoyment #mistrust #philosophy #trust #wisdom

  5. A quotation from Terry Pratchett

    His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools — the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans — and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, “You can’t trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there’s nothing you can do about it, so let’s have a drink.”

    Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
    Discworld No. 13, Small Gods (1992)

    More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/4504…

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  6. A quotation from The Bible

    Wine is very life to humans
       if taken in moderation.
    What is life to one who is without wine?
       It has been created to make people happy.
    Wine drunk at the proper time and in moderation
       is rejoicing of heart and gladness of soul.
       
    [ἔφισον ζωῆς οἶνος ἀνθρώποις,
       ἐὰν πίνῃς αὐτὸν ἐν μέτρῳ αὐτοῦ.
    τίς ζωὴ ἐλασσουμένῳ οἴνῳ;
       καὶ αὐτὸς ἔκτισται εἰς εὐφροσύνην ἀνθρώποις.
    ἀγαλλίαμα καρδίας καὶ εὐφροσύνη ψυχῆς
       οἶνος πινόμενος ἐν καιρῷ αὐτάρκης·]

    The Bible (The Old Testament) (14th - 2nd C BC) Judeo-Christian sacred scripture [Tanakh, Hebrew Bible], incl. the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals)
    Book 22b. Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 31:27ff (Sir 31:27–28) [tr. NRSV (2021 ed.)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-ot/85500/

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  7. A quotation from The Bible

    Feasts are made for laughter,
       wine gladdens life,
       and money meets every need.
     
    לִשְׂחוֹק֙ עֹשִׂ֣ים לֶ֔חֶם וְיַ֖יִן יְשַׂמַּ֣ח חַיִּ֑ים וְהַכֶּ֖סֶף יַעֲנֶ֥ה אֶת־הַכֹּֽל׃

    The Bible (The Old Testament) (14th - 2nd C BC) Judeo-Christian sacred scripture [Tanakh, Hebrew Bible], incl. the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals)
    Book 21. Ecclesiastes 10:19ff (Eccl 10:19) [tr. NRSV (2021 ed.)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-ot/84156/

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  8. A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

    In the life of the artist there need be no hour without its pleasure. I take the author, with whose career I am best acquainted; and it is true he works in a rebellious material, and that the act of writing is cramped and trying both to the eyes and the temper; but remark him in his study, when matter crowds upon him and words are not wanting — in what a continual series of small successes time flows by; with what a sense of power as of one moving mountains, he marshals his petty characters; with what pleasures, both of the ear and eye, he sees his airy structure growing on the page; and how he labours in a craft to which the whole material of his life is tributary, and which opens a door to all his tastes, his loves, his hatreds, and his convictions, so that what he writes is only what he longed to utter. He may have enjoyed many things in this big, tragic playground of the world; but what shall he have enjoyed more fully than a morning of successful work? Suppose it ill paid: the wonder is it should be paid at all. Other men pay, and pay dearly, for pleasures less desirable.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
    Essay (1888-09), “A Letter to a Young Gentleman Who Proposes to Embrace the Career of Art,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3

    More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

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  9. A quotation from Mark Twain

    How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it!

    Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
    Story (1905-12), “Eve’s Diary,” Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 112, No. 1

    More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/28734/

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  10. A quotation from Horace

    Fortune nor home not more the man can cheer,
    Who lives a prey to covetise or fear,
    Than may a picture’s richest hues delight
    Eyes that with dropping rheum are thick of sight,
    Or warm soft lotions soothe a gout-racked foot,
    Or aching ears be charmed by twangling lute.
    On minds unquiet joy has lost its power;
    In a foul vessel everything turns sour.
     
    [Qui cupit aut metuit, iuvat ilium sic domus et res,
    Ut lippum pictae tabulae, fomenta podagrum,
    Auriculas citbarae collecta sorde dolentes.
    Sincerumst nisi vas, quodcumque infundis acescit
    Sperne voluptate.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 51ff (1.2.51-54) (14 BC) [tr. Martin (1881)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/82248/

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  11. A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

    Just now, when every one is bound, under pain of a decree in absence convicting them of lèse-respectability, to enter on some lucrative profession, and labour therein with something not far short of enthusiasm, a cry from the opposite party, who are content when they have enough, and like to look on and enjoy in the meanwhile, savours a little of bravado and gasconade. And yet this should not be. Idleness so called, which does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class, has as good a right to state its position as industry itself.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
    Essay (1877-07), “An Apology for Idlers,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 36

    More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

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  12. A quotation from A. A. Milne

       “When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself?”
       “What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh. “What do you say, Piglet?”
       “I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting to-day?” said Piglet.
       Pooh nodded thoughtfully.
       “It’s the same thing,” he said.

    A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
    Winnie-the-Pooh, ch. 10 “Christopher Robin Gives a Pooh Party” (1926)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/milne-a-a/2839/

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