The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1929
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Even a paranoid can have enemies.
—Henry Kissinger, 1977The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.
—Mencius, c. 270 BCTomorrow we take to the mighty sea.
—Horace, 23 BCRepetition is the mother of education.
—Jean Paul, 1807Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860Death keeps no calendar.
—George Herbert, 1640Anyone who doesn’t know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1821The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.
—Hannah Arendt, 1972The sea yields action to the body, meditation to the mind, the world to the world, all parts thereof to each part, by this art of arts—navigation.
—Samuel Purchas, 1613Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body, to try the manners of different nations, to hear the chimes at midnight.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward VIII, 1957I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.
—Marilyn Monroe, 1962