There be beasts that, at a year old, observe more, and pursue that which is for their good more prudently, than a child can do at ten.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1651
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I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. War is hell.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1879The mill will never grind with water that is past.
—Daniel McCallum, 1870The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is better, only the god knows.
—Socrates, 399 BCThere comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
—Mark Twain, 1876Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
—Samuel Johnson, 1776Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
—Rosa Luxemburg, 1918From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.
—Herman Melville, 1851He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.
—E. R. Dodds, 1951There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCHe that commands the sea is at great liberty and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600Under all speech that is good for anything, there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1838