Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.
—Pablo Picasso, 1929
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Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
—George Washington, 1783If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
—Charles M. Allen, 1967The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
—Laurence Sterne, 1760All of the great musicians have borrowed from the songs of the common people.
—Antonín Dvořák, 1893We seek with our human hands to create a second nature in the natural world.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCEvery man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
—Samuel Johnson, 1771Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge.
—Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, 1654Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
—Eleanor Roosevelt, 1942All pain is one malady with many names.
—Antiphanes, c. 400 BC’Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables?
—Thomas Browne, 1642We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930