The Mediterranean has the colors of a mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet—you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing light has taken on a tinge of pink or gray.
—Vincent van Gogh, 1888
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If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988Today’s friend may be tomorrow’s foe.
—Sophocles, 440 BCIn tampering with the earth, we tamper with a mystery.
—Jonathan Schell, 2000Enemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.
—Elsa Maxwell, 1955Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.
—Edward Bellamy, 1888My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
—P.D. James, 1992Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
—Tertullian, c. 215I have yet, I believe, some years in store, for I have a good state of health and a happy mind, and I take care of both by nourishing the first with temperance and the latter with abundance. This, I believe, you will allow to be the true philosophy of life.
—Thomas Paine, 1803Commerce tends to wear off those prejudices which maintain distinction and animosity between nations.
—William Robertson, 1769’Tis the sport to have the engineer / Hoist with his own petard.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600