Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.
—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841
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Drink today and drown all sorrow; / You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.
—John Fletcher, 1625Society as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school.
—Che Guevara, 1965Envy and hatred are apt to blind the eyes and render them unable to behold things as they are.
—Margaret of Valois, c. 1600Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, “I would stay here and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”
—Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, 1989Not 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, 1884He laughs best who laughs last.
—French proverbThe traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.
—Juvenal, c. 125You must not grow used to making money out of everything. One sees more people ruined than one has seen preserved by shameful gains.
—Sophocles, c. 442 BCA tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can’t think of anything else to do.
—W.H. Auden, 1946Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
—H.L. Mencken, 1919The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
—Victor Hugo, 1862There never was a good war or a bad peace.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1773