The sea hath no king but God alone.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1881
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I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1902If you were to ask me if I’d ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I’d have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
—Gertrude Stein, 1940Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
—Jean Rostand, 1939Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.
—Plato, c. 375 BCMusic melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
—Anaïs Nin, 1939Cities are the abyss of the human species.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790Happiness does not dwell in herds, nor yet in gold.
—Democritus, c. 420 BCDo that which consists in taking no action, and order will prevail.
—Laozi, c. 500 BC