I never even saw the use of the sea. Many a sad heart has it caused, and many a sick stomach has it occasioned! The boldest sailor climbs on board with a heavy soul and leaps on land with a light spirit.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1827
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When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.
—Anthony Doerr, 2006From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.
—Herman Melville, 1851Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
—Margaret Atwood, 2005Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1655I am a friend of the workingman, and I would rather be his friend than be one.
—Clarence Darrow, 1932Enemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.
—Elsa Maxwell, 1955The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.
—George Moore, 1888Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.
—Benjamin Franklin, c. 1732Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa, c. 1975