I have loved war too well.
—Louis XIV, 1715
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Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.
—Anthony Doerr, 2006The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1321Without a decisive naval force, we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.
—George Washington, 1781When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
—Alice Hegan Rice, 1917There’s hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600Don’t ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.
—Colette, 1944There 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, 1684At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
—Rose Macaulay, 1925Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCMen, my dear, are very queer animals—a mixture of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel malice.
—T. H. Huxley, 1895The doctor occupies a seat in the front row of the stalls of the human drama, and is constantly watching and even intervening in the tragedies, comedies, and tragicomedies which form the raw material of the literary art.
—W. Russell Brain, 1952