My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.
—Tecumseh, 1810
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The sea hath fish for every man.
—William Camden, 1605Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it, and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1790Well now, there’s a remedy for everything except death.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605You can steal a lot more with a computer than with a gun.
—Gina Smith, 1997Enemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.
—Elsa Maxwell, 1955To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872Jesters do oft prove prophets.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1605No time to marry, no time to settle down, I’m a young woman, and ain’t done runnin’ round.
—Bessie Smith, 1926If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
—Francis Bacon, 1625The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.
—Anthony Burgess, 1972Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
—Germaine Greer, 1970