For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879
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The most may err as grossly as the few.
—John Dryden, 1681I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.
—Jane Austen, c. 1798Luck takes the step that no one sees.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCIf one hears bad music, it is one’s duty to drown it by conversation.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890Everyone knows about everybody in Hollywood—who sleeps with whom, who doesn’t sleep, who does it standing on his head or in the dentist’s chair.
—Rock Hudson, 1982The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and, secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1879What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1850The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
—Virginia Woolf, 1921He who would be happy should stay at home.
—Greek proverbThere are some who, if a cat accidentally comes into the room, though they neither see it nor are told of it, will presently be in a sweat and ready to die away.
—Increase Mather, 1684Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.
—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913Peace is a natural effect of trade.
—Montesquieu, 1748