Ah! Freedom is a noble thing!
—John Barbour, 1375
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What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
—Henry Adams, 1907Hunting is all that’s worth living for—all time is lost what is not spent in hunting—it is like the air we breathe—if we have it not we die—it’s the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt.
—Robert Smith Surtees, 1843The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, / And drinks, and gapes for drink again.
—Abraham Cowley, 1656Man’s great mission is not to conquer nature by main force but to cooperate with her intelligently but lovingly for his own purposes.
—Lewis Mumford, 1962There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.
—Jean Anouilh, 1934Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.
—Richard Brathwaite, 1631The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
—John Berger, 1984It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
—Frederick Douglass, 1852I think it makes small difference to the dead if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All this is an empty glorification left for those who live.
—Euripides, 415 BCDoctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan, 1943Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
—Wendell Phillips, 1859I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1789