People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing’s as eternal as the dishes.
—Margaret Mahy, 1985
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Seamen are the nearest to death and the furthest from God.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732I never yet could make out why men are so fond of hunting; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields—and all for a hare or a fox or a stag that they could get more easily some other way.
—Anna Sewell, 1877Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773Colonialism has meant selling our ore and being left with the holes.
—Samora Moisés Machel, c. 1976Ah, there are no children nowadays.
—Molière, 1673I wants to make your flesh creep.
—Charles Dickens, 1837There is no small pleasure in sweet water.
—Ovid, c. 10Nature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called games.
—W.H. Auden, 1962They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
—Francis Bacon, 1605None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
—Pearl S. Buck, 1943