The history of the land has been written very largely in water.
—John Hodgdon Bradley Jr., 1935
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Man has here two and a half minutes—one to smile, one to sigh, and half a one to love; for in the midst of this minute he dies.
—Jean Paul, 1795Speak without regard for the consequences, and it is too late for silence when disaster strikes.
—Huan Kuan, 81 BCWhy has the government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787Life isn’t all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman’s education.
—Thomas Hughes, 1857Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
—James Joyce, 1922Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCFar water cannot quench near fire.
—Japanese proverbGive us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with the necessities.
—John Lothrop Motley, 1858The art of invention grows young with the things invented.
—Francis Bacon, 1605When you drink water, think of its source.
—Chinese proverbIndustrialism is the religion with “the machine” as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.
—Dora Russell, 1983More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880