O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
—William Shakespeare, c. 1596
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Are we not ourselves nature, nature without end?
—Stanisław Lem, 1961Idolatry is the mother of all games.
—Novatian, c. 255What will not attract a man’s stare at sea?—a gull, a turtle, a flying fish!
—Richard Burton, 1883Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.
—Horace Walpole, 1784The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
—Joshua Slocum, 1900If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar, and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?
—Olive Schreiner, 1883I curse the night, yet doth from day me hide.
—William Drummond, 1616Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCDo you suppose it possible to know democracy without knowing the people?
—Xenophon, c. 370 BCI shall curse you with book and bell and candle.
—Thomas Malory, c. 1470All of the great musicians have borrowed from the songs of the common people.
—Antonín Dvořák, 1893Why is a ship under sail more poetical than a hog in a high wind? The hog is all nature, the ship is all art.
—Lord Byron, 1821