Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, c. 45 BC
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Memories are hunting horns
whose noise dies away in the wind.
Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things—but each according to its nature—and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1821The history of the land has been written very largely in water.
—John Hodgdon Bradley Jr., 1935Gossip isn’t scandal and it’s not merely malicious. It’s chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
—Phyllis McGinley, 1957Of all objects that I have ever seen, there is none which affects my imagination so much as the sea or ocean. A troubled ocean, to a man who sails upon it, is, I think, the biggest object that he can see in motion, and consequently gives his imagination one of the highest kinds of pleasure that can arise from greatness.
—Joseph Addison, 1712Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?
—Brooks Atkinson, 1940When the root lives on, the new leaves come back.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCThose who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1755Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
—Charles M. Allen, 1967