They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
—Francis Bacon, 1605
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There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
—Mark Twain, 1894Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea. It is down there that the sea folk live.
—Hans Christian Andersen, 1837A friend in power is a friend lost.
—Henry Adams, 1905Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury—to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
—Albert Einstein, 1931Wherever commerce prevails there will be an inequality of wealth, and wherever the latter does a simplicity of manners must decline.
—James Madison, 1783’Tis the destroyer, or the devil, that scatters plagues about the world.
—Cotton Mather, 1693Those who cross the seas change their climate but not their character.
—Roman proverbThe body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
—Aphra Behn, 1677When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957He knows the water best who has waded through it.
—Danish proverbI like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889