Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea. It is down there that the sea folk live.
—Hans Christian Andersen, 1837
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The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo, 2001There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
—Elias Canetti, 1960What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 BCTo do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.
—Martin Luther, c. 1530The elephant, although a gross beast, is yet the most decent and most sensible of any other upon earth. Although he never changes his female, and hath so tender a love for her whom he hath chosen, yet he never couples with her but at the end of every three years, and then only for the space of five days.
—St. Francis de Sales, 1609We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706Life is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 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, 1876The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870It is permitted to learn even from an enemy.
—Ovid, c. 8