They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
—Francis Bacon, 1605
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my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
—Herman Melville, 1851Spit not in the well; you may have to drink its water.
—French proverbThe vice presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss.
—John Nance Garner, c. 1967To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma.
—Gretel Ehrlich, 1994The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
—Carl Sandburg, 1934Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
—Gertrude Stein, 1940If a king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.
—Mencius, c. 330 BCI know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
—Dean Acheson, 1970Commerce tends to wear off those prejudices which maintain distinction and animosity between nations.
—William Robertson, 1769