I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say—your professional poets, I mean—there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1810
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The sole business of a seaman onshore who has to go to sea again is to take as much pleasure as he can.
—Leigh Hunt, 1820Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.
—Doris Lessing, 1994In the country gossip is a pastime; in the city it is a warfare.
—W.M.L. Jay, 1870Everything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.
—Joseph Joubert, 1791The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
—Camille Paglia, 1992Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
—Thomas Mann, 1924The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
—Edmund Burke, 1790Commerce tends to wear off those prejudices which maintain distinction and animosity between nations.
—William Robertson, 1769Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1938No one wins a quarrel by quarreling.
—German proverb