The sea receives us in a proper way only when we are without clothes.
—Pliny the Elder, 77
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The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
—Plato, c. 375 BCEight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for what we will.
—Slogan of the National Labor Union of the United States, 1866God walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582What are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1843Enemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.
—Elsa Maxwell, 1955Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.
—Doris Lessing, 1994If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
—Francis Bacon, 1615The gods play games with men as balls.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCRebellion is no less a sin than divination.
—Book of Samuel, c. 550 BCTake back your golden fiddles, and we’ll beat to open sea.
—Rudyard Kipling, 1892That obtained in youth may endure like characters engraved in stones.
—Ibn Gabirol, 1040