Exile lacks the grandeur, the majesty, of expatriation.
—Bharati Mukherjee, 1999
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The severity of a teacher is better than the love of a father.
—Saadi, 1258Can you take your country with you on the soles of your shoes?
—Georg Büchner, 1835To teach is to learn twice over.
—Joseph Joubert, c. 1805Once a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
—Tacitus, c. 100Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.
—Rebecca West, 1959An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BCHe who commands the sea has command of everything.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600I went [to war] because I couldn’t help it. I didn’t want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.
—Louisa May Alcott, 1863Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.
—Pierre Boulez, 1989Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1886God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967If I played in New York, they’d name a candy bar after me.
—Reggie Jackson, 1976