Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
—Charles Kuralt, c. 1980
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Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.
—David Hume, 1742It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.
—Horace, 19 BCChildren are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750I ride rough waters and shall sink with no one to save me.
—Virginia Woolf, 1931The young always have the same problem—how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their elders and copying one another.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968An irreligious man is not one who denies the gods of the majority, but one who applies to the gods the opinions of the majority. For what most men say about the gods are not ideas derived from sensation, but false opinions, according to which the greatest evils come to the wicked, and the greatest blessings come to the good from the gods.
—Epicurus, c. 250 BCEven members of the nobility, let alone persons of no consequence, would do well not to have children.
—Yoshida Kenko, c. 1330To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCThe Mughal’s nature is such that they demand miracles, but if a miracle were to be performed by some upright follower of our religion, they would say that it had been brought about by magic and sorcery. They would strike him down with spears or would stone him to death.
—Fr. Antonio Monserrate, 1590It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
—Friedrich Schiller, 1781