It is remarkable that only small birds properly sing.
—Charles Darwin, 1871
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The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.
—Richard Brathwaite, 1631my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing
I would delight in music, but the music is discordant.
—Xie Lingyun, c. 425Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
—William Hazlitt, 1821A monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 109I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.
—David Hume, 1751The money market is to a commercial nation what the heart is to man.
—William Pitt, 1805That which is evil is soon learned.
—John Ray, 1670Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCWhere the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of these two has the grander view?
—Victor Hugo, 1862God never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.
—The Qur’an, c. 620