Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920
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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes “sightseeing.”
—Daniel Boorstin, 1961Yes to a market economy, no to a market society.
—Lionel Jospin, 1998A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
—Ouida, 1880When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
—Alice Hegan Rice, 1917One of the things men should most strive to do is win a good reputation and see that no one questions it.
—Juan Manuel, 1335A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
—Isadora Duncan, c. 1902Hang work! I wish that all the year were holiday; I am sure that Indolence—indefeasible Indolence—is the true state of man.
—Charles Lamb, 1805The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.
—John Updike, 1963The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
—Victor Hugo, 1862I always think of nature as a great spectacle, somewhat resembling the opera.
—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.
—Sylvia Alice Earle, 1995