He that commands the sea is at great liberty and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600
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Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge.
—Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, 1654When poets don’t know what to say and have completely given up on the play, just like a finger, they lift the machine and the spectators are satisfied.
—Antiphanes, c. 350 BCModern life is often a mechanical oppression, and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1935The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
—Mark Twain, 1894Under all speech that is good for anything, there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1838The fear of war is worse than war itself.
—Seneca, c. 50Home is wherever I go.
—Indira Gandhi, 1955We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
—Ida M. Tarbell, 1904God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin LutherMemory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.
—Barbara Kingsolver, 1990A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1944