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
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Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
—Robert Benchley, 1935People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing’s as eternal as the dishes.
—Margaret Mahy, 1985All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1655Man punishes the action, but God the intention.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732We must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.
—John Winthrop, 1630A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1852Moderation in all things.
—Terence, 166 BCThe human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.
—Phyllis Rose, 1991There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Never greet a stranger in the night, for he may be a demon.
—Babylonian Talmud, c. 600