They exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home.
—Virgil, c. 30 BC
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The future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856No man will take counsel, but every man will take money: therefore money is better than counsel.
—Jonathan Swift, 1702The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbLet me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world: it gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. The picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
—Susan B. Anthony, 1896Business is other people’s money.
—Delphine de Girardin, 1852I can’t see (or feel) the conflict between love and religion. To me they’re the same thing.
—Elizabeth Bowen, c. 1970Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.
—Winston Churchill, 1939The man in constant fear is every day condemned.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCAlmsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.
—Eva Perón, 1949Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.
—Hans Zinsser, 1935Oil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.
—Peter Hitchcock, 2010