Why is a ship under sail more poetical than a hog in a high wind? The hog is all nature, the ship is all art.
—Lord Byron, 1821
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How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.
—Charles Lamb, 1833I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.
—John Maynard Keynes, 1917In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
—V.S. Pritchett, 1968The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
—Tertullian, c. 215If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive.
—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BCIt is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
—John Brown, 1904Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of these two has the grander view?
—Victor Hugo, 1862Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.
—William Blake, 1804