The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
—William Blake, 1793
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
—John Berger, 1984The fox knows lots of tricks, the hedgehog only one—but it’s a winner.
—Archilochus, c. 650 BCTell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
—Robert Benchley, 1935To live outside the law, you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan, 1966I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm’s way.
—John Paul Jones, 1778Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
—William James, 1902The sadness of the end of a career of an older athlete, with the betrayal of his body, is mirrored in the rest of us. Consciously or not, we know: there, soon, go I.
—Ira Berkow, 1987There lurks in every human heart a desire of distinction which inclines every man first to hope and then to believe that nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
—Samuel Johnson, 1763Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1939Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
—Joseph Joubert, 1811What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1830A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60