I imagined it was more difficult to die.
—Louis XIV, 1715
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In the Middle Ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
—Robert Runcie, 1988Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
—Robert Benchley, 1935To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.
—H.M. Tomlinson, 1912All law is of necessity defective in the beginning.
—Han Yu, c. 800We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1922When you drink water, think of its source.
—Chinese proverbIn America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, c. 1940It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
—Jean de La Fontaine, 1668