Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies.
—H.L. Mencken, 1925
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Seafarers go to sleep in the evening not knowing whether they will find themselves at the bottom of the sea the next morning.
—Jean de Joinville, c. 1305One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1977Hunting is all that’s worth living for—all time is lost what is not spent in hunting—it is like the air we breathe—if we have it not we die—it’s the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt.
—Robert Smith Surtees, 1843The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871Nature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635Understanding is a very dull occupation.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937Memory is necessary for all operations of reasoning.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1658If a king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.
—Mencius, c. 330 BCResearch is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1942Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.
—Walt Whitman, 1842I’ve dreamed enough to have a drink.
—François Rabelais, 1546