The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. We go on a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences—to leave ourselves behind, much more to get rid of others.
—William Hazlitt, 1822
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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 BCEvery tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605If we pretend to respect the artist at all, we must allow him his freedom of choice, in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify. Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.
—Henry James, 1884One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1819No one’s serious at seventeen.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1870There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.
—Karl Kraus, 1909The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.
—Jean Anouilh, 1934The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
—Anna Jameson, 1846When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
—St. Jerome, 395