What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains and studying night and day how to fly?
—William Law, 1728
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We die of comfort and by conflict live.
—May Sarton, 1953I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1807As man disappears from sight, the land remains.
—Maori proverbReputation, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
—Douglas Jerrold, 1840An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
—Maxim Gorky, 1902Fear is a poor guarantor of a long life.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCNature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
—Lorraine Hansberry, 1965We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962