If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.
—Charles Dickens, 1865Quotes
Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, “I would stay here and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”
—Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, 1989The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
—Dean Acheson, 1970One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911Recreations should be as sauces to your meat, to sharpen your appetite unto the duties of your calling, and not to glut yourselves with them.
—Thomas Gouge, 1672To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCQuarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin LutherIt is noble to die before doing anything that deserves death.
—Anaxandrides, c. 376Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
—E.B. White, 1944Memories are hunting horns
whose noise dies away in the wind.
Emigration is easy, but immigration is something else. To flee, yes; but to be accepted?
—Victoria Wolff, 1943There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866