What a man does abroad by night requires and implies more deliberate energy than what he is encouraged to do in the sunshine.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1852
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All pain is one malady with many names.
—Antiphanes, c. 400 BCThere ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
—Mark Twain, 1894Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
—Saint Augustine, c. 400I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.
—Albert Camus, 1957I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do—that was one of my favorite things about it—and when I first did it, I felt perverse.
—Diane Arbus, c. 1950Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings.
—Anna Quindlen, 2012The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.
—Che Guevara, 1968Friendship itself will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
—Robert Wilson Lynd, 1924There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891When man wanted to make a machine that would walk, he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.
—Guillaume Apollinaire, 1917Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.
—Richard Brathwaite, 1631