Everybody says it; and what everybody says must be true.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1844
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God walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582Civilization, a much-abused word, stands for a high matter quite apart from telephones and electric lights.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCWe 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, 1774Recreations should be as sauces to your meat, to sharpen your appetite unto the duties of your calling, and not to glut yourselves with them.
—Thomas Gouge, 1672Water its living strength first shows, / When obstacles its course oppose.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1815As man disappears from sight, the land remains.
—Maori proverbCalamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Seamen are the nearest to death and the furthest from God.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
—Germaine Greer, 1970It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.
—Horace, 19 BCThe Mughal’s nature is such that they demand miracles, but if a miracle were to be performed by some upright follower of our religion, they would say that it had been brought about by magic and sorcery. They would strike him down with spears or would stone him to death.
—Fr. Antonio Monserrate, 1590