The sole business of a seaman onshore who has to go to sea again is to take as much pleasure as he can.
—Leigh Hunt, 1820
Archive
Quotes
The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
—Galen, c. 175A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
—August Strindberg, 1886And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right.
—Judge Learned Hand, 1944Anyone who’s never watched somebody die is suffering from a pretty bad case of virginity.
—John Osborne, 1956Quarreling must lead to disorder, and disorder exhaustion.
—Xunzi, c. 250 BCWe do not suffer by accident.
—Jane Austen, 1813Some memories are like lucky charms, talismans, one shouldn’t tell about them or they’ll lose their power.
—Iris Murdoch, 1985Without virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.
—Confucius, c. 350 BCEducation is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.
—Malcolm X, 1964Fear is a poor guarantor of a long life.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44