Nature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BC
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From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.
—Herman Melville, 1851A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1897Anyone who has a child should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.
—W.H. Auden, 1947It’s only the futility of the first flood that prevents God from sending a second.
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1794The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. We go on a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences—to leave ourselves behind, much more to get rid of others.
—William Hazlitt, 1822The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961Why is a ship under sail more poetical than a hog in a high wind? The hog is all nature, the ship is all art.
—Lord Byron, 1821You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.
—Walter Lippmann, 1913A friend in power is a friend lost.
—Henry Adams, 1905It is better to live unknown to the law.
—Irish proverbThe sea hath fish for every man.
—William Camden, 1605A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
—Jane Austen, 1814