I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.
—Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1804
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Put national causes first and personal grudges last.
—Sima Qian, c. 91 BCWhen arms speak, the laws are silent.
—Cicero, 52 BCThe king times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end.
—Lord Byron, 1821Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
—Arthur Wellesley, c. 1830When poets don’t know what to say and have completely given up on the play, just like a finger, they lift the machine and the spectators are satisfied.
—Antiphanes, c. 350 BCThe first thing that a new migrant sends to his family back home isn’t money; it’s a story.
—Suketu Mehta, 2019The law looks at no one’s face.
—Gabriel Okara, 1964He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.
—Roger L’Estrange, 1692One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
—André Gide, 1926The more laws, the more lawbreakers.
—Tao Te Ching, c. 500 BCTo be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.
—Charles Lamb, 1833I think we are inexterminable, like flies and bedbugs.
—Robert Frost, 1959