1757 Quotes

#1. In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.

Voltaire

#2. Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.
(Essay on Tea, 1757.)

Samuel Johnson

#3. I had the sense of coming home to myself, and of having found out what a little circle man's experience is.

Willa Cather

#4. Everything in our universe is ciphered and to know the cipher is to know the thing - and to know the thing is to command it.

Guillermo Del Toro

#5. We're only as big as our experiences.

Scott Weiland

#6. In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.

Edward O. Wilson

#7. How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.

Benjamin Franklin

#8. They're not wolves.

Randall Allen Dunn

#9. I've always loved reporting from the field most of all. There's something about doing live TV and being there as it happens that's always appealed to me. I think there's great value to bearing witness to these events as they're actually happening.

Anderson Cooper