The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.
—Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, 1858
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Tomorrow we take to the mighty sea.
—Horace, 23 BCThe civilized man has built a coach but has lost the use of his feet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.
—Sylvia Plath, 1963After midnight the moon set and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.
—Amelia Earhart, 1935The mill will never grind with water that is past.
—Daniel McCallum, 1870Does anybody really want to attend to cities other than to flee, fleece, privatize, butcher, or decimate them?
—Jane Holtz Kay, 1992To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCPower is so apt to be insolent, and Liberty to be saucy, that they are very seldom upon good terms.
—George Savile, c. 1690Do not fear the clatter of wheels, the bumps and slops in corridors. It is only turbulence.
—Romalyn Ante, 2020Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
—Robert Benchley, 1935Can you take your country with you on the soles of your shoes?
—Georg Büchner, 1835A fair complexion is unbecoming to a sailor: he ought to be swarthy from the waters of the sea and the rays of the sun.
—Ovid, c. 1 BC