Night affords the most convenient shade for works of darkness.
—John Taylor, 1750
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To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
—Jean Genet, 1949Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.
—George Gershwin, 1933There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
—Francis Bacon, 1625We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!
—Humphrey Gilbert, 1583The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
—Joshua Slocum, 1900A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773The law is established from above but becomes custom below.
—Su Zhe, c. 1100Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
—Charles Darwin, 1859Bright youth passes as quickly as thought.
—Theognis, c. 550 BCAll revolutions devour their own children.
—Ernst Röhm, 1933All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849