The earth is our existence, and our body is attached to the earth.
—Daulat Qazi, c. 1650
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Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.
—Derek Walcott, 1986The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.
—Nell Scovell, 1991From the cradle to the coffin, underwear comes first.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1928Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
—Aleister Crowley, c. 1925Good fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BCThe law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890Water has many ways of reminding us that when we are in it we are out of our element.
—Christopher Hitchens, 2008The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
—Laurence Sterne, 1760The sadness of the end of a career of an older athlete, with the betrayal of his body, is mirrored in the rest of us. Consciously or not, we know: there, soon, go I.
—Ira Berkow, 1987There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
—Homer, c. 750 BCThe fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.
—P.G. Wodehouse, 1929Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
—Charles Kuralt, c. 1980