Quotes

Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.

—Charles Kuralt, c. 1980

Fear has a smell, as love does.

—Margaret Atwood, 1972

A monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.

—Pliny the Younger, c. 109

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.

—William James, 1902

He laughs best who laughs last.

—French proverb

Music is our myth of the inner life.

—Susanne K. Langer, 1942

Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo.

—Matsuo Basho, c. 1685

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.

—André Gide, 1897

In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.

—Thomas Szasz, 1970

He who would have clear water should go to the fountainhead.

—Italian proverb

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

—Elias Canetti, 1960

I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive.

—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BC

Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity.

—Albert Camus, 1956

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