Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul.
—Horace, c. 20 BC
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I 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, 1940Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
—William James, 1902I have often been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
—Thucydides, c. 404 BCAnyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better I should not have come.
—Raymond Chandler, 1945Knowledge itself is power.
—Francis Bacon, 1597The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
—Anna Jameson, 1846Men, my dear, are very queer animals—a mixture of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel malice.
—T. H. Huxley, 1895Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897One who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2400 BCI think heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of heaven here.
—Emily Dickinson, 1879Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?
—Aristophanes, 423 BC