In the Middle Ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
—Robert Runcie, 1988
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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
—Thucydides, 410 BCA whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.
—George Gershwin, 1933Nature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.
—Lucretius, c. 57 BCHe who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.
—Muhammad, c. 630Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.
—Erich Fromm, 1947Journalists belong in the gutter, because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.
—Gerald Priestland, 1988There is no crime without precedent.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60Iron may break gold, but water remains whole.
—Ge Hong, c. 300There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
—Madame de Sévigné, 1671I’ve dreamed enough to have a drink.
—François Rabelais, 1546