One man’s loss is another man’s profit.
—Michel de Montaigne, c. 1580
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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, 1820Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
—Barbara Walters, 1975Ocean. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man—who has no gills.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906A friend in power is a friend lost.
—Henry Adams, 1905Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
—John Donne, c. 1629Your mind’s got to eat, too.
—Dambudzo Marechera, 1978That obtained in youth may endure like characters engraved in stones.
—Ibn Gabirol, 1040It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one’s arms around a side of beef.
—Tom Stoppard, 1993Journalists belong in the gutter, because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.
—Gerald Priestland, 1988The sea hath no king but God alone.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1881You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
—Bill Clinton, 1996