Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.
—Charles I, 1636
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Water its living strength first shows, / When obstacles its course oppose.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1815There is no happiness like that of a young couple in a little house they have built themselves in a place of beauty and solitude.
—Annie Proulx, 2008People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.
—James Baldwin, 1953Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
—Alvin Toffler, 1970Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.
—Solomon ibn Gabirol, 1050One religion is as true as another.
—Robert Burton, 1621Seafarers go to sleep in the evening not knowing whether they will find themselves at the bottom of the sea the next morning.
—Jean de Joinville, c. 1305Unexemplary words and unfounded doctrines are avoided by the noble person. Why utter them?
—Dong Zhongshu, c. 120 BCWe are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962You must not grow used to making money out of everything. One sees more people ruined than one has seen preserved by shameful gains.
—Sophocles, c. 442 BCI shall embrace my rival—until I suffocate him.
—Jean Racine, 1669The envious die not once, but as often as the envied win applause.
—Baltasar Gracián, 1647