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
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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, 1843Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851The smell of rain is rich with life.
—Estela Portillo Trambley, 1975It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
—Dolores Ibárruri, 1936Energy 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, 1970Seek not water, only show you are thirsty, / That water may spring up all around you.
—Rumi, c. 1260Though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.
—Bion of Smyrna, c. 100 BCLife’s no resting, but a moving.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787As man disappears from sight, the land remains.
—Maori proverbHe laughs best who laughs last.
—French proverbHe who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.
—Muhammad, c. 630