A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
—Ronald Reagan, 1965
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All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
—Edmund Burke, 1796History in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another.
—Ellsworth Huntington, 1919The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947The gods play games with men as balls.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCThe most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870Sick, irritated, and the prey to a thousand discomforts, I go on with my labor like a true workingman, who, with sleeves rolled up, in the sweat of his brow, beats away at his anvil, not caring whether it rains or blows, hails or thunders.
—Gustave Flaubert, 1845For sooner will men hold fire in their mouths than keep a secret.
—Petronius, c. 60Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water.
—Zadie Smith, 2000Friendship’s a noble name, ’tis love refined.
—Susanna Centlivre, 1703For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813The mere existence of nuclear weapons by the thousands is an incontrovertible sign of human insanity.
—Isaac Asimov, 1988An irreligious man is not one who denies the gods of the majority, but one who applies to the gods the opinions of the majority. For what most men say about the gods are not ideas derived from sensation, but false opinions, according to which the greatest evils come to the wicked, and the greatest blessings come to the good from the gods.
—Epicurus, c. 250 BC