There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.
—Sylvia Alice Earle, 1995
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When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, “He is better off.”
—Edgar Watson Howe, 1911I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1789The law is not the same at morning and at night.
—George Herbert, c. 1633A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851Our whole life is but one great school; from the cradle to the grave we are all learners; nor will our education be finished until we die.
—Ann Plato, 1841Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.
—Edmund Burke, 1790I have yet, I believe, some years in store, for I have a good state of health and a happy mind, and I take care of both by nourishing the first with temperance and the latter with abundance. This, I believe, you will allow to be the true philosophy of life.
—Thomas Paine, 1803War is fear cloaked in courage.
—William Westmoreland, 1966I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say—your professional poets, I mean—there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1810Reputation, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
—Douglas Jerrold, 1840In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.
—Michel Foucault, 1975Play, wherein persons of condition, especially ladies, waste so much of their time, is a plain instance to me that men cannot be perfectly idle; they must be doing something, for how else could they sit so many hours toiling at that which generally gives more vexation than delight to people whilst they are actually engaged in it?
—John Locke, 1693