The sole business of a seaman onshore who has to go to sea again is to take as much pleasure as he can.
—Leigh Hunt, 1820
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And what will history say of me a thousand years hence?
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 BCArt, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1928The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.
—Johannes Kepler, 1605Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!
—Humphrey Gilbert, 1583Under the wide and starry sky, / Dig the grave and let me lie.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1887The Mediterranean has the colors of a mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet—you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing light has taken on a tinge of pink or gray.
—Vincent van Gogh, 1888Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
—Marcel Marceau, 1958I don’t believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there’s one thing that’s dangerous for an artist, it’s precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.
—Federico Fellini, c. 1950Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
—Robert Wilson, 1991The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
—Aristotle, c. 322 BC