Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
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The sea serves the pirate as well as the trader.
—Prudentius, c. 405I never yet could make out why men are so fond of hunting; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields—and all for a hare or a fox or a stag that they could get more easily some other way.
—Anna Sewell, 1877Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.
—Horace Walpole, 1784The sea is mother-death, and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
—Anne Sexton, 1971We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
—Ida M. Tarbell, 1904Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?
—Aristophanes, 423 BCSanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920And then, sir, there is this consideration: that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up and, claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
—Samuel Johnson, 1791Nature contains no one constant form.
—Paul-Henri Dietrich d’Holbach, 1770To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.
—Charles Lamb, 1833Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476I will never again command an army in America if we must carry along paid spies. I will banish myself to some foreign country first.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863