If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003
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Quotes
We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!
—Humphrey Gilbert, 1583War to the castles; peace to the cottages.
—Nicolas Chamfort, 1790All law is of necessity defective in the beginning.
—Han Yu, c. 800The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.
—Albert Einstein, 1930Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
—Jane Austen, 1811One need merely visit the marketplace and the graveyard to determine whether a city is in both physical and metaphysical order.
—Ernst Jünger, 1977my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCJesters do oft prove prophets.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1605What will not attract a man’s stare at sea?—a gull, a turtle, a flying fish!
—Richard Burton, 1883Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1809