A woman should never be seen eating or drinking unless it be lobster salad and champagne, the only truly feminine and becoming viands.
—Lord Byron, 1812
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The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.
—George Herbert, 1651Best is water.
—Pindar, 476 BCIt hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.
—Anthony Doerr, 2006Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.
—Plato, c. 375 BCAll pain is one malady with many names.
—Antiphanes, c. 400 BCThe seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1962The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870Inventor, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers, and springs and believes it civilization.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
—Barbara Ward, 1972