The sea yields action to the body, meditation to the mind, the world to the world, all parts thereof to each part, by this art of arts—navigation.
—Samuel Purchas, 1613
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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, 1621The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.
—Cicero, 44 BCIt is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
—Friedrich Schiller, 1781A friend in power is a friend lost.
—Henry Adams, 1905Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100Years are nothing to me—they should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or to consider them? In the world of wild nature, time is measured by seasons only—the bird does not know how old it is—the rose tree does not count its birthdays!
—Marie Corelli, 1911I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborAfrica has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
—William Jennings Bryan, 1899Peace is a natural effect of trade.
—Montesquieu, 1748By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
—Confucius, c. 500 BC