The waters are nature’s storehouse, in which she locks up her wonders.
—Izaak Walton, 1653
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What a glut of books! Who can read them? As already, we shall have a vast chaos and confusion of books; we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.
—Robert Burton, 1621One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
—Oscar Wilde, 1894Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1610Doing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
—Roger Ebert, 1998Men, my dear, are very queer animals—a mixture of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel malice.
—T. H. Huxley, 1895Drunkenness is the very sepulcher / Of man’s wit and his discretion.
—Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1390Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.
—Euripides, 431 BCHe makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
—Molière, 1666I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCThe more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
—Plato, c. 375 BCNo lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BC