We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
—Gore Vidal, 1981One need merely visit the marketplace and the graveyard to determine whether a city is in both physical and metaphysical order.
—Ernst Jünger, 1977Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
—Joseph Joubert, 1811There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.
—H.L. Mencken, 1920When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.
—Francis Bacon, 1625According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
—Gore Vidal, 1973Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833The ability to store our data externally helps us imagine that our time is limitless, our space infinite.
—Carina Chocano, 2012To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890They say that gifts persuade even the gods.
—Euripides, 431 BCNowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
—G.C. Lichtenberg, c. 1780