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We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.

—John F. Kennedy, 1962

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

—Gore Vidal, 1981

One need merely visit the marketplace and the graveyard to determine whether a city is in both physical and metaphysical order.

—Ernst Jünger, 1977

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

—Joseph Joubert, 1811

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.

—H.L. Mencken, 1920

When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.

—Francis Bacon, 1625

According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.

—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

—Gore Vidal, 1973

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

—Maria Edgeworth, 1833

The ability to store our data externally helps us imagine that our time is limitless, our space infinite.

—Carina Chocano, 2012

To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.

—Samuel Butler, c. 1890

They say that gifts persuade even the gods. 

—Euripides, 431 BC

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

—G.C. Lichtenberg, c. 1780