That which is evil is soon learned.
—John Ray, 1670
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Traveling 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, 1989In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you’re told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.
—Simon Hoggart, 1990The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615The brightest light burns the quickest.
—Olive Beatrice Muir, 1900There is no method by which men can be both free and equal.
—Walter Bagehot, 1863Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?
—Brooks Atkinson, 1940Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
—J. Paul GettyThe earth is beautiful and bright and kindly, but that is not all. The earth is also terrible and dark and cruel.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1970In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1787Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money’s guest.
—Norman O. Brown, 1959All technologies should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.
—David Brower, 1992Uprootedness is by far the most dangerous malady to which human societies are exposed, for it is a self-propagating one.
—Simone Weil, 1943