Ashore it’s wine, women, and song; aboard it’s rum, bum, and concertina.
—British naval saying, c. 1800
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What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 BCOur enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
—George W. Bush, 2004Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money’s guest.
—Norman O. Brown, 1959It is wretched business to be digging a well just as you’re dying of thirst.
—Plautus, c. 193 BCGod walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977There lurks in every human heart a desire of distinction which inclines every man first to hope and then to believe that nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
—Samuel Johnson, 1763Revolutionaries are greater sticklers for formality than conservatives.
—Italo Calvino, 1957It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.
—Adelle Davis, 1951The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
—George Eliot, 1876And, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but the truth in masquerade.
—Lord Byron, 1822I think heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of heaven here.
—Emily Dickinson, 1879