The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
—Joshua Slocum, 1900
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It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCEven diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960Night affords the most convenient shade for works of darkness.
—John Taylor, 1750I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborHygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.
—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCGod is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.
—Maxim Gorky, 1913It belongs to a nobleman to weep in an hour of disaster.
—Euripides, 412 BCAmong all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.
—Immanuel Kant, 1781Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665Jesters do oft prove prophets.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1605