The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the Church.
—Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1510
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Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
—H.L. Mencken, 1919I proclaim night more truthful than the day.
—Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1956Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings.
—Anna Quindlen, 2012And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.
—Zora Neale Hurston, 1937Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1928Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.
—Henry Clay, 1842Oligopoly, plutocracy, kleptocracy: All things that are good for a shareholder.
—James J. Cramer, 2006When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.
—Francis Bacon, 1625There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1738