A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on nonalcoholic wine.
—Karl Kraus, 1909
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We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!
—Humphrey Gilbert, 1583Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
—Herbert Hoover, 1936When man wanted to make a machine that would walk, he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.
—Guillaume Apollinaire, 1917From the cradle to the coffin, underwear comes first.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1928The twilight is the crack between the worlds.
—Carlos Castaneda, 1968It is wretched business to be digging a well just as you’re dying of thirst.
—Plautus, c. 193 BCI have always been of the mind that in a democracy, manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie knife.
—James Russell Lowell, 1873It is impossible to translate the poets. Can you translate music?
—Voltaire, c. 1732There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.
—Sylvia Alice Earle, 1995I imagine that one of the first forms of behavior, like one of the first signals, may be reduced to this: “Keep me warm.”
—Michel Serres, 1982We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
—Ida M. Tarbell, 1904A jest breaks no bones.
—Samuel Johnson, 1781