Why is a ship under sail more poetical than a hog in a high wind? The hog is all nature, the ship is all art.
—Lord Byron, 1821
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Without a decisive naval force, we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.
—George Washington, 1781I quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BCWhat a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807Friendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924Happiness is a warm puppy.
—Charles Schulz, 1971Every communist must grasp the truth: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
—Mao Zedong, 1938Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
—Calvin Coolidge, 1932In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951I’ve dreamed enough to have a drink.
—François Rabelais, 1546Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.
—Herman Melville, 1851One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911