It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1908“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747The day unravels what the night has woven.
—Walter Benjamin, 1929A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCIn all the ancient states and empires, those who had the shipping, had the wealth.
—William Petty, 1690The self is like an infant: given free rein, it craves to suckle.
—al-Busiri, c. 1250There lurks in every human heart a desire of distinction which inclines every man first to hope and then to believe that nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
—Samuel Johnson, 1763I never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927