Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, “I would stay here and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”
—Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, 1989
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I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.
—Edith Konecky, 1976Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell!
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1843It is hard when nature does not respect your intentions, and she never does exactly respect them.
—Wendell Berry, 1985Great cities must ever be centers of light and darkness, the home of the best and the worst of our race, holding within themselves the highest talent for good and evil.
—Matthew Hale Smith, 1868The march of the human mind is slow.
—Edmund Burke, 1775Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665Better free in a strange land than a slave at home.
—German proverbFire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942No man will take counsel, but every man will take money: therefore money is better than counsel.
—Jonathan Swift, 1702War has silenced all laws.
—Lucan, c. 65Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.
—Robert P. Hudson, 1983It belongs to a nobleman to weep in an hour of disaster.
—Euripides, 412 BC