When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.
—Francis Bacon, 1625
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Whatsoever is, is in God.
—Benedict de Spinoza, 1677All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
—Edmund Burke, 1796One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929The king times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end.
—Lord Byron, 1821The Mughal’s nature is such that they demand miracles, but if a miracle were to be performed by some upright follower of our religion, they would say that it had been brought about by magic and sorcery. They would strike him down with spears or would stone him to death.
—Fr. Antonio Monserrate, 1590One should always have one’s boots on and be ready to leave.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580Eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for what we will.
—Slogan of the National Labor Union of the United States, 1866Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
—John Berger, 1987Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCArt is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
—Sydney Smith, 1855Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
—Barbara Walters, 1975