You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
—Mario Cuomo, 1985
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He knows the water best who has waded through it.
—Danish proverbNature has planted in our minds an insatiable desire to seek the truth.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BCHe makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
—Molière, 1666One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911I have loved war too well.
—Louis XIV, 1715More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling—it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.
—Gertrude Stein, 1943I even gave up, for a while, stopping by the window of the room to look out at the lights and deep, illuminated streets. That’s a form of dying, that losing contact with the city like that.
—Philip K. Dick, 1972Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BCWe have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706One who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2400 BC