I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.
—Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1804
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The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.
—P.G. Wodehouse, 1929A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706Our crime against criminals is that we treat them as villains.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1898Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.
—Sarah Bernhardt, 1904Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
—Isadora Duncan, c. 1902It is He who has subdued the ocean so that you may eat of its fresh fish and bring up from its depth ornaments to wear. Behold the ships plowing their course through it. All this, that you may seek His bounty and render thanks.
—The Qur’an, c. 625Nature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCHappiness is not something you can catch and lock up in a vault like wealth. Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1939Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa, c. 1975Drink today and drown all sorrow; / You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.
—John Fletcher, 1625The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
—Myrtle Reed, 1910