Luck is believing you’re lucky.
—William Carlos Williams, 1947
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Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
—Hebrews, c. 60’Tis the sport to have the engineer / Hoist with his own petard.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600Just as language no longer has anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.
—Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903The 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, 1961One need merely visit the marketplace and the graveyard to determine whether a city is in both physical and metaphysical order.
—Ernst Jünger, 1977Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.
—Euripides, 431 BCGod seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
—Maya Angelou, 1993You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
—Henrik Ibsen, 1882Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions, as it were, by the way, in the course of their everyday life.
—Elizabeth Charles, 1862I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
—Xenocrates, c. 350 BCGod is our father, but even more is God our mother.
—Pope John Paul I, 1978