All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
—John Ruskin, 1856
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Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1480Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
—Horace, c. 25 BCThe best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.
—LaoziThere is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
—Shimon Peres, 1995See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
—Robert Burton, c. 1620After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
—John Huston, 1950No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.
—Erich Fromm, 1947Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
—August Strindberg, 1886I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
—Maxine Hong Kingston, 1976