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Why is a ship under sail more poetical than a hog in a high wind? The hog is all nature, the ship is all art.
—Lord Byron, 1821Ah! Freedom is a noble thing!
—John Barbour, 1375The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, / And drinks, and gapes for drink again.
—Abraham Cowley, 1656You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
—Mario Cuomo, 1985Don’t try to make a profit on a bad trade; just try to find the best place to get out.
—Linda Bradford Raschke, 1992To escape its wretched lot, the populace has three ways, two imaginary and one real. The first two are the rum shop and the church; the third is the social revolution.
—Mikhail Bakunin, 1871The elephant, although a gross beast, is yet the most decent and most sensible of any other upon earth. Although he never changes his female, and hath so tender a love for her whom he hath chosen, yet he never couples with her but at the end of every three years, and then only for the space of five days.
—St. Francis de Sales, 1609It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936Those who are awake have a world that is one and common, but each of those who are asleep turns aside into his own particular world.
—Heraclitus, c. 500 BCIn politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1830While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
—Andrea Dworkin, 1983The play is the tragedy “Man,” And its hero the conqueror worm.
—Edgar Allan Poe, 1843