Cows are among the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them—and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
—Thomas De Quincey, 1821
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Revolutions never go backward.
—Thomas Skidmore, 1829What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
—Erasmus, 1515The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.
—Frantz Fanon, 1952I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast, for I intend to go in harm’s way.
—John Paul Jones, 1778There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, 1989The land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
—The BibleTo hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 45The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes “sightseeing.”
—Daniel Boorstin, 1961A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851What mighty contests rise from trivial things.
—Alexander Pope, 1712Civilization, as we know it, is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
—Arnold Toynbee, 1948I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1789