With the dead there is no rivalry.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1839
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Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel picking, murder, homicide and great effusion of bloode, as daily experience teacheth.
—Philip Stubbes, 1583Put national causes first and personal grudges last.
—Sima Qian, c. 91 BCWhat is life but organized energy?
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1958Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938Thanks be to God: since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
—Samuel Pepys, 1662We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
—Barbara Ward, 1972You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
—Cormac McCarthy, 2005Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings.
—Anna Quindlen, 2012I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am.
—Alice James, 1889Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838When you drink water, think of its source.
—Chinese proverbThe sea yields action to the body, meditation to the mind, the world to the world, all parts thereof to each part, by this art of arts—navigation.
—Samuel Purchas, 1613