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, 1820
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The fear of war is worse than war itself.
—Seneca, c. 50The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775He who laugheth too much, hath the nature of a fool; he that laugheth not at all, hath the nature of an old cat.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732We cannot say what the woman might be physically, if the girl were not allowed all the freedom of the boy in romping, climbing, swimming, playing whoop and ball.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1848I have given up considering happiness as relevant.
—Edward Gorey, 1974The life of a sailor is very unhealthy.
—Francis Galton, 1883Speak without regard for the consequences, and it is too late for silence when disaster strikes.
—Huan Kuan, 81 BCEverything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.
—Joseph Joubert, 1791The peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system, is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
—Victor Hugo, 1862Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.
—Albert Camus, 1942Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
—Joseph Stalin, 1934