Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, / And say my glory was I had such friends.
—W.B. Yeats, 1937
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What will not attract a man’s stare at sea?—a gull, a turtle, a flying fish!
—Richard Burton, 1883My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
—Timothy Leary, 1966Men are merriest when they are from home.
—William Shakespeare, 1599A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851Most authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.
—Davy Crockett, 1834All technologies should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.
—David Brower, 1992If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
—Horace, 20 BCI take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.
—Rebecca West, 1939Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1852I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am.
—Alice James, 1889A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
—Ralph Nader, 2000In the name of Hippocrates doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983