Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.
—Benjamin Franklin, c. 1732
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
—George Eliot, 1866Water its living strength first shows, / When obstacles its course oppose.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1815See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
—Robert Burton, c. 1620To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing.
—Herodotus, c. 425 BCA shopkeeper will never get the more custom by beating his customers; and what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation.
—Josiah Tucker, 1766The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
—Joshua Slocum, 1900Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan, 1943Without music life would be a mistake.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.
—George Moore, 1888Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.
—Edmund Burke, 1790