Ashore it’s wine, women, and song; aboard it’s rum, bum, and concertina.
—British naval saying, c. 1800
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Let us make our own mistakes, but let us take comfort in the knowledge that they are our own mistakes.
—Tom Mboya, 1958It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.
—Erasmus, 1518Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.
—Jane Austen, c. 1798The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
—William Blake, 1793God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
—John Lennon, 1970Talk to me about the truth of religion and I’ll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I’ll listen submissively. But don’t come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don’t understand.
—C.S. Lewis, 1961Men are merriest when they are from home.
—William Shakespeare, 1599The true art of memory is the art of attention.
—Samuel Johnson, 1759Childhood has no forebodings—but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
—George Eliot, 1860“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
—George Eliot, 1866One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911