The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward VIII, 1957
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Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1939Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
—George Washington, 1783Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature. Laughter hath only a scornful tickling.
—Philip Sidney, 1582It is He who has subdued the ocean so that you may eat of its fresh fish and bring up from its depth ornaments to wear. Behold the ships plowing their course through it. All this, that you may seek His bounty and render thanks.
—The Qur’an, c. 625As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.
—H.M. Tomlinson, 1912There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1965Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.
—Jean-Luc Godard, 1966All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made—through disobedience and through rebellion.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891