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The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

—Edward Gibbon, 1788

What is life but organized energy?

—Arthur C. Clarke, 1958

Where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

—George Santayana, c. 1905

Men were born to lie, and women to believe them.

—John Gay, 1728

One religion is as true as another.

—Robert Burton, 1621

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

—Jean Genet, 1949

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

—B.F. Skinner, 1964

I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830

Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel picking, murder, homicide and great effusion of bloode, as daily experience teacheth.

—Philip Stubbes, 1583

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

—Derek Walcott, 1986

Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.

—Leslie Jamison, 2020

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

—Brigitte Bardot, 1989

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

—Carl Sandburg, 1934