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Traveling is like gambling: it is ever connected with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1797

Hunting is all that’s worth living for—all time is lost what is not spent in hunting—it is like the air we breathe—if we have it not we die—it’s the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt.

—Robert Smith Surtees, 1843

Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

The smell of rain is rich with life.

—Estela Portillo Trambley, 1975

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

—Germaine Greer, 1970

Seek not water, only show you are thirsty, / That water may spring up all around you.

—Rumi, c. 1260

Though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.

—Bion of Smyrna, c. 100 BC

Life’s no resting, but a moving.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795

Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.

—Alexander Hamilton, 1787

As man disappears from sight, the land remains.

—Maori proverb

He laughs best who laughs last.

—French proverb

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

—Muhammad, c. 630