The period is not very remote when the benefits of a liberal and free commerce will, pretty generally, succeed to the devastations and horrors of war.
—George Washington, 1786
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To know the abyss of the darkness and not to fear it, to entrust oneself to it and whatever may arise from it—what greater gift?
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1975Doing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
—Roger Ebert, 1998If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
—Dorothy ParkerFor, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
—Herman Melville, 1851Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.
—William Wycherley, 1675Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules, and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence; in other words it is war minus the shooting.
—George Orwell, 1945It is not my design to drink or sleep; my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.
—Oliver Cromwell, 1658Good men must not obey the laws too well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.
—Albert Camus, 1942It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735