Without a decisive naval force, we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.
—George Washington, 1781
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I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
—Xenocrates, c. 350 BCA human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
—Dorothy L. Sayers, 1947If you have any soul worth expressing, it will show itself in your singing.
—John Ruskin, 1865Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCEven a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
—H.G. Wells, 1905The tune I remember, could I but keep the words.
—Virgil, 38 BCMen are generally more pleased with a widespread than with a great reputation.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 110Abstainer, n. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906He who sings frightens away his ills.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605There 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, 1763O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599