Luck takes the step that no one sees.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC
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When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.
—Francis Bacon, 1625Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929Ocean. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man—who has no gills.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.
—Dai Vernon, 1994Happiness does not dwell in herds, nor yet in gold.
—Democritus, c. 420 BCAs I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
—Abraham Lincoln, c. 1858One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
—Barbara Ward, 1972I hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are all odious to me. I should relish getting my living in a simple, primitive fashion.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1855Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
—William Hazlitt, 1819The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCThank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
—Sydney Smith, 1855