Don’t ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.
—Colette, 1944
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Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will—whatever we may think.
—Lawrence Durrell, 1957The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
—Edward Gibbon, 1788We 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, 1962Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
—Theodore Roosevelt, 1903Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903A machine is a slave that neither brings nor bears degradation.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
—Marty Feldman, 1969I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
—Coretta Scott King, 1994A dead enemy always smells good.
—Aulus Vitellius, 69One need merely visit the marketplace and the graveyard to determine whether a city is in both physical and metaphysical order.
—Ernst Jünger, 1977Man is merely a more perfect animal than the rest. He reasons better.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1816