Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899
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Like a broken gong be still, be silent. Know the stillness of freedom where there is no more striving.
—Siddhartha Gautama, c. 500 BCThere is a time to battle against nature, and a time to obey her. True wisdom lies in making the right choice.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1979The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.
—Johannes Kepler, 1605Being thus arrived in good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stale earth, their proper element.
—William Bradford, 1630The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
—Mario Puzo, 2001By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
—Confucius, c. 500 BCBid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.
—William Shakespeare, 1592There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891What delight can there be, and not rather displeasure, in hearing the barking and howling of dogs? Or what greater pleasure is there to be felt when a dog followeth a hare than when a dog followeth a dog?
—Thomas More, 1516I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
—Galileo Galilei, 1615Ashore it’s wine, women, and song; aboard it’s rum, bum, and concertina.
—British naval saying, c. 1800All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849