Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.
—Pablo Picasso, 1929
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Business? Why, it’s very simple; business is other people’s money.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1857If I lose at play, I blaspheme, and if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So that God is always sure to be the loser.
—John Donne, 1623The life of a sailor is very unhealthy.
—Francis Galton, 1883Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
—Jane Austen, 1811Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
—Calvin Coolidge, 1932A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.
—Cicero, 44 BCThat which is evil is soon learned.
—John Ray, 1670In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!
—Anthony Trollope, 1859Seamen are the nearest to death and the furthest from God.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1928There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
—John Locke, 1689