There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.
—Sylvia Alice Earle, 1995
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Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
—Mark Twain, 1893As bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character.
—David Sedaris, 1997Sooner or later if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere, it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.
—Winston Churchill, 1939It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.
—Erasmus, 1518Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.
—Italo Calvino, 1957After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
—John Huston, 1950As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
—Chinua Achebe, 1958It is better to live unknown to the law.
—Irish proverbThe happiness of society is the end of government.
—John Adams, 1776There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules, and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence; in other words it is war minus the shooting.
—George Orwell, 1945