Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1758
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Best is water.
—Pindar, 476 BCThis is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
—Horace, c. 35 BCChildhood has no forebodings—but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
—George Eliot, 1860The deed is everything, the glory naught.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832The sea yields action to the body, meditation to the mind, the world to the world, all parts thereof to each part, by this art of arts—navigation.
—Samuel Purchas, 1613A change in the weather is sufficient to create the world and oneself anew.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1920A good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.
—Ben Jonson, 1633The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo, 2001Do we want laurels for ourselves most, / Or most that no one else shall have any?
—Amy Lowell, 1922We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things, and once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774What will not attract a man’s stare at sea?—a gull, a turtle, a flying fish!
—Richard Burton, 1883Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.
—Immanuel Kant, 1784