Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838
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The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.
—Édouard Manet, c. 1860Among famous traitors of history, one might mention the weather.
—Ilka Chase, 1969Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
—Aphra Behn, 1677Abstainer, n. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.
—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841One of the animals which a generous and sociable man would soonest become is a dog. A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character; he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow.
—Leigh Hunt, 1834Fear is the foundation of most governments.
—John Adams, 1776Though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.
—Bion of Smyrna, c. 100 BCMemory is like the moon, which hath its new, its full, and its wane.
—Margaret Cavendish, 1655If there is a technological advance without a social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
—Michael Harrington, 1962Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851It’s easy to be independent when you’ve got money. But to be independent when you haven’t got a thing—that’s the Lord’s test.
—Mahalia Jackson, 1966