Quotes

I’ve dreamed enough to have a drink.

—François Rabelais, 1546

If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

—Henry Clay, 1812

No real friendship without absolute liberty.

—George Sand, 1866

Night affords the most convenient shade for works of darkness.

—John Taylor, 1750

All law is of necessity defective in the beginning.

—Han Yu, c. 800

Nobody, sir, dies willingly.

—Antiphanes, c. 370 BC

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

—Basho, c. 1690

There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.

—Aeschylus, c. 458 BC

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891

Ocean. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man—who has no gills.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma.

—Gretel Ehrlich, 1994

Enemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.

—Elsa Maxwell, 1955

Oil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.

—Peter Hitchcock, 2010

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