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, 1989
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We and the dead ride quick at night.
—Gottfried August Bürger, 1773If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
—Mark Twain, 1894See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
—Robert Burton, c. 1620A crowded police court docket is the surest sign that trade is brisk and money plenty.
—Mark Twain, 1872Machines do not run in order to enable men to live, but we resign ourselves to feeding men in order that they may serve the machines.
—Simone Weil, 1934A jest breaks no bones.
—Samuel Johnson, 1781These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847Life isn’t all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman’s education.
—Thomas Hughes, 1857Whenever there is excess, an ax remedies it.
—Sumerian proverbThe affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honor or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774