Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.
—Horace, c. 20 BC
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There be beasts that, at a year old, observe more, and pursue that which is for their good more prudently, than a child can do at ten.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1651I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm’s way.
—John Paul Jones, 1778Luck, in the great game of war, is undoubtedly lord of all.
—Arthur Griffiths, 1899Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
—Arthur Miller, 1961Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
—Barbara Walters, 1975A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.
—The BibleToday’s city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.
—Martin Oppenheimer, 1969Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity.
—Albert Camus, 1956So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, c. 1950He who laugheth too much, hath the nature of a fool; he that laugheth not at all, hath the nature of an old cat.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can’t think of anything else to do.
—W.H. Auden, 1946