Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476
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Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603God never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.
—The Qur’an, c. 620How like to us is that filthy beast the ape.
—Cicero, 45 BCLet us leave this Europe which never stops talking of Man yet massacres him at every one of its street corners, at every corner of the world.
—Frantz Fanon, 1961Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 30 BCWill and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
—Isadora Duncan, c. 1902What will not attract a man’s stare at sea?—a gull, a turtle, a flying fish!
—Richard Burton, 1883Far water cannot quench near fire.
—Japanese proverbThe gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.
—Winston Churchill, 1943It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.
—Mary Boykin Chesnut, 1865The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985