Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel picking, murder, homicide and great effusion of bloode, as daily experience teacheth.
—Philip Stubbes, 1583
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It is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.
—James Hutton, 1795The mansion of modern freedoms stands on an ever-expanding base of fossil-fuel use.
—Dipesh Chakrabarty, 2008The whole secret of fencing consists but in two things, to give and not to receive.
—Molière, 1670Far water cannot quench near fire.
—Japanese proverbI live by good soup, and not on fine language.
—Molière, 1672Oligopoly, plutocracy, kleptocracy: All things that are good for a shareholder.
—James J. Cramer, 2006Vox populi, vox humbug.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1863I always think of nature as a great spectacle, somewhat resembling the opera.
—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.
—Derek Walcott, 1986It is noble to die before doing anything that deserves death.
—Anaxandrides, c. 376Imitate the ass in his love to his master.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 388No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BC