No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BC
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Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1610At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896I’ve got some shit I’m conservative about and some shit I’m liberal about. Crime—I’m conservative. Prostitution—I’m liberal.
—Chris Rock, 2008The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1807Water is the first principle of everything.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 600 BCAnyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 30 BCTrade is a social act.
—John Stuart Mill, 1859Is all our fire of shipwreck wood?
—Robert Browning, 1862Democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.
—Margaret Halsey, 1946When the abbot throws the dice, the whole convent will play.
—Martin Luther, c. 1540The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty, and death of public opinion.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1902