You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.
—William Randolph Hearst, 1898
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Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825There’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!
—Rachel Field, 1939There are some who, if a cat accidentally comes into the room, though they neither see it nor are told of it, will presently be in a sweat and ready to die away.
—Increase Mather, 1684In a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins its case.
—Rwandan proverbOur entire history is merely the history of the waking life of man; nobody has yet considered the history of his sleeping life.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, c. 1780There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.
—Helen Keller, 1928It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.
—Erasmus, 1518The atavistic urge toward danger persists and its satisfaction is called adventure.
—John Steinbeck, 1941Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798I never practice, I always play.
—Wanda Landowska, 1953It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.
—Horace, 19 BCThere is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
—Homer, c. 750 BC