A friend in power is a friend lost.
—Henry Adams, 1905
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Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
—Norman Douglas, 1917It is He who has subdued the ocean so that you may eat of its fresh fish and bring up from its depth ornaments to wear. Behold the ships plowing their course through it. All this, that you may seek His bounty and render thanks.
—The Qur’an, c. 625Art imitates nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his master; thus it is a sort of grandchild of God.
—Dante, c. 1315Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide, wide sea!
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.
—Théophile Gautier, c. 1835A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976An unjust law is no law at all.
—Saint Augustine, 395The world is wearied of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1870You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
—Bill Clinton, 1996With the dead there is no rivalry.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1839Each night’s new terror drives away the terror of the night before.
—Sophocles, c. 450 BC