The mill will never grind with water that is past.
—Daniel McCallum, 1870
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As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.
—H.M. Tomlinson, 1912Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
—Camille Paglia, 1992Youth, youth, springtime of beauty.
—Anthem of the National Fascist Party, c. 1924Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967Eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for what we will.
—Slogan of the National Labor Union of the United States, 1866Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
—J. Paul GettyNothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
—Saint Augustine, c. 387As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
—Charles Darwin, 1859Even a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977What delight can there be, and not rather displeasure, in hearing the barking and howling of dogs? Or what greater pleasure is there to be felt when a dog followeth a hare than when a dog followeth a dog?
—Thomas More, 1516We 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, 1774There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580