A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732
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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it, and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1790Peace is a natural effect of trade.
—Montesquieu, 1748There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
—Mark Twain, 1894All that we know is nothing can be known.
—Lord Byron, 1812The young always have the same problem—how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their elders and copying one another.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
—Alexander the Great, c. 323 BCI am weary of friends, and friendships are all monsters.
—Jonathan Swift, 1710If you read somebody’s diary, you get what you deserve.
—David Sedaris, 2004There are many civil questions that arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled.
—William Howard Taft, 1921Traveling 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, 1989Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water.
—Zadie Smith, 2000Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
—William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847