The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
—Edward Gibbon, 1788
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What is life but organized energy?
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1958Where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
—George Santayana, c. 1905Men were born to lie, and women to believe them.
—John Gay, 1728One religion is as true as another.
—Robert Burton, 1621To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
—Jean Genet, 1949Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
—B.F. Skinner, 1964I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel picking, murder, homicide and great effusion of bloode, as daily experience teacheth.
—Philip Stubbes, 1583Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.
—Derek Walcott, 1986Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.
—Leslie Jamison, 2020I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
—Brigitte Bardot, 1989The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
—Carl Sandburg, 1934