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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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879Make human nature your study wherever you reside—whatever the religion or the complexion, study their hearts.
—Ignatius Sancho, 1778Among famous traitors of history, one might mention the weather.
—Ilka Chase, 1969To hold a throne is luck; to bestow it, virtue.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 45How can we bear misfortune most easily? If we see our enemies faring worse.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 585 BCMan is a tool-using animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1836A passion for horses, players, and gladiators seems to be the epidemic folly of the times. The child receives it in his mother’s womb; he brings it with him into the world, and in a mind so possessed, what room for science, or any generous purpose?
—Tacitus, c. 100Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
—Sammy Davis Jr., 1965Disease is not of the body but of the place.
—Latin proverbWhat touches all shall be approved by all.
—Edward I, 1295I’ve dreamed enough to have a drink.
—François Rabelais, 1546All pain is one malady with many names.
—Antiphanes, c. 400 BC