According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794
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The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.
—Albert Einstein, 1930Appearances often are deceiving.
—Aesop, c. 550 BCDrinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.
—William Wycherley, 1675Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
—Wendell Phillips, 1859The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.
—George Moore, 1888When man wanted to make a machine that would walk, he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.
—Guillaume Apollinaire, 1917An unjust law is no law at all.
—Saint Augustine, 395Fear is the foundation of most governments.
—John Adams, 1776Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476If a king loves music, there is little wrong in the land.
—Mencius, c. 330 BCThey exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home.
—Virgil, c. 30 BCThe great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
—George Santayana, 1905