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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…

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

  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. A quotation from The Epic of Gilgamesh

    Gilgamesh, where are you roaming?
    You will never find the eternal life
    that you seek. When the gods created mankind,
    they also created death, and they held back
    eternal life for themselves alone.
    Humans are born, they live, and then they die,
    this is the order that the gods have decreed.
    But until the end comes, enjoy your life,
    spend it in happiness, not despair.
    Savor your food, make each of your days
    a delight, bathe and anoint yourself,
    wear bright clothes that are sparkling clean,
    let music and dancing fill your house,
    love the child who holds you by the hand,
    and give your wife pleasure in your embrace.
    That is the best way for a man to live.

    Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2100–1200 BC) Sumerian myth
    Tablet 10, col. 3 [Siduri] [tr. Mitchell (2004)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/gilgamesh/81779/

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  9. 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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  10. A quotation from Omar Khayyam

    Go to! Cast dust on those deaf skies, who spurn
    Thy orisons and bootless prayers, and learn
       To quaff the cup, and hover round the fair;
    Of all who go, did ever one return?

    Omar Khayyám (1048-1123) Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer [عمر خیام]
    Rubáiyát [رباعیات], Bod. # 97 [tr. Whinfield (1883), # 267]

    Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/omar-khayyam/77193/

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  11. A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

    To be suddenly snuffed out in the middle of ambitious schemes, is tragical enough at best; but when a man has been grudging himself his own life in the meanwhile, and saving up everything for the festival that was never to be, it becomes that hysterically moving sort of tragedy which lies on the confines of farce.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
    Essay (1878-03), “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 37

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

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