Those 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, 1747
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Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right.
—Judge Learned Hand, 1944The land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
—The BibleNothing is more narrow-minded than chauvinism or racial hatred. To me all men are equal; there are flatheads everywhere and I despise them all equally.
—Karl Kraus, 1909Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
—Germaine Greer, 1970Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946The man in constant fear is every day condemned.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCAll the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.
—Jack London, 1912We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things, and once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774There is no crime without precedent.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 60Life isn’t all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman’s education.
—Thomas Hughes, 1857One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BC