Take back your golden fiddles, and we’ll beat to open sea.
—Rudyard Kipling, 1892
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Tomorrow we take to the mighty sea.
—Horace, 23 BCIt would seem that in history it’s never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.
—Sybille Bedford, 1963The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1905Friendships begin with liking or gratitude—roots that can be pulled up.
—George Eliot, 1876You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
—Bill Clinton, 1996The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. I think that the worst thing you could say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever. After all, you know, there are worse things in life than death.
—Woody Allen, 1975Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCWhen we define democracy now, it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
—Pearl S. Buck, 1941We seek with our human hands to create a second nature in the natural world.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCA change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1732To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968Egypt was the mother of magicians.
—Clement of Alexandria, c. 200