Better free in a strange land than a slave at home.
—German proverb
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Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
—Ian Dury, 1977Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1480The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the Church.
—Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1510It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.
—Aldous Huxley, 1925Nothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.
—Karl Kraus, 1909Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?
—Brooks Atkinson, 1940It’s easy to be independent when you’ve got money. But to be independent when you haven’t got a thing—that’s the Lord’s test.
—Mahalia Jackson, 1966Why listen to me? I can only predict epidemics and plagues.
—Larry Kramer, 1992The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
—L.P. Hartley, 1953Language is the archives of history.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.
—Roger L’Estrange, 1692A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1732