Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel picking, murder, homicide and great effusion of bloode, as daily experience teacheth.
—Philip Stubbes, 1583
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It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.
—Adelle Davis, 1951Conjecturing a Climate
Of unsuspended Suns –
Adds poignancy to Winter
‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it—have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.
—James Russell Lowell, 1884We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion if we want to be happy.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
—Cato the Elder, c. 184 BCThe history of the land has been written very largely in water.
—John Hodgdon Bradley Jr., 1935Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
—Roald Dahl, 1990A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
—Christina Stead, 1938Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
—Vegetius, c. 385Emigration is easy, but immigration is something else. To flee, yes; but to be accepted?
—Victoria Wolff, 1943