Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad.
—Jonathan Swift, c. 1730
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
—Paddy Chayefsky, 1976People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence, and they think they have seen something.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1843The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
—Joshua Slocum, 1900Ah, there are no children nowadays.
—Molière, 1673Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?
—Aristophanes, 423 BCAll pain is one malady with many names.
—Antiphanes, c. 400 BCYou should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
—Henrik Ibsen, 1882If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
—Samuel Johnson, 1777One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580Friend! It is a common word, often lightly used. Like other good and beautiful things, it may be tarnished by careless handling.
—Harriet Jacobs, 1861You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
—Joseph Conrad, 1900Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
—Book of Job, c. 600 BC