The smell of rain is rich with life.
—Estela Portillo Trambley, 1975
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879Imitate the ass in his love to his master.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 388The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
—Italo Calvino, 1967And what will history say of me a thousand years hence?
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 59 BCThe desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
—Laurence Sterne, 1760I have loved war too well.
—Louis XIV, 1715Exchange is no robbery.
—German proverbIt seems to me that we all look at nature too much and live with her too little.
—Oscar Wilde, 1897If a patient is poor, he is committed to a public hospital as “psychotic”; if he can afford the luxury of a private sanitarium, he is put there with the diagnosis of “neurasthenia”; if he is wealthy enough to be isolated in his own home under constant watch of nurses and physicians, he is simply an indisposed “eccentric.”
—Pierre Marie Janet, 1930All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.
—Max Born, 1968We all have a contract with the public—in us they see themselves, or what they would like to be.
—Clark Gable, 1935Can you take your country with you on the soles of your shoes?
—Georg Büchner, 1835