A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732
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The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
—Edward Gibbon, 1788Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
—Vegetius, c. 385Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.
—Richard Brathwaite, 1631I am weary of friends, and friendships are all monsters.
—Jonathan Swift, 1710The worship of opinion is, at this day, the established religion of the United States.
—Harriet Martineau, 1839In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
—Theodor Adorno, 1951Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
—Cormac McCarthy, 1992In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
—Colette, 1944Traveling is like gambling: it is ever connected with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1797There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580Ocean. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man—who has no gills.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
—Amiri Baraka, 1962