The gratitude is greater than the gift.
—Pierre Corneille, 1641
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In the Middle Ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
—Robert Runcie, 1988An ape will be an ape, though clad in purple.
—Erasmus, 1511Great 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, 1868Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCIn order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.
—John Ruskin, 1850Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions, as it were, by the way, in the course of their everyday life.
—Elizabeth Charles, 1862Every country has the government it deserves.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1811Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
—Jane Austen, 1815I have often said that if I wish to name-drop, I have only to list my ex-friends.
—Norman Podhoretz, 1999To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.
—Eugenia Sheppard, 1960