A world is sooner destroyed than made.
—Thomas Burnet, 1684
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
—André Gide, 1927When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.
—Francis Bacon, 1625All art is a revolt against man’s fate.
—André Malraux, 1951Nature never jests.
—Albrecht von Haller, 1751Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world: it gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. The picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
—Susan B. Anthony, 1896Those who cross the seas change their climate but not their character.
—Roman proverbGod is our father, but even more is God our mother.
—Pope John Paul I, 1978The sea is mother-death, and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
—Anne Sexton, 1971Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
—Robertson Davies, 1985Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BCOne who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2400 BC