Can you take your country with you on the soles of your shoes?
—Georg Büchner, 1835
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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body, to try the manners of different nations, to hear the chimes at midnight.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
—Bertrand Russell, 1938The first duty of a good inquisitor is to suspect especially those who seem sincere to him.
—Umberto Eco, 1980What timid man does not avoid contact with the sick, fearing lest he contract a disease so near?
—Ovid, c. 10The sea serves the pirate as well as the trader.
—Prudentius, c. 405I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.
—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1940Happiness is no laughing matter.
—Richard Whately, 1843He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1833Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
—Lucretius, c. 58 BCMen take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600War is sweet to those who don’t know it.
—Erasmus, 1508