Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.
—Euripides, c. 425 BC
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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the grand climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
—Jean Baudrillard, 1987Eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for what we will.
—Slogan of the National Labor Union of the United States, 1866In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.
—R.D. Laing, 1967No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1809There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
—Saint Augustine, c. 390Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
—James Madison, 1794There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
—Anthony Trollope, 1862He who commands the sea has command of everything.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600God never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.
—The Qur’an, c. 620The happy ending is our national belief.
—Mary McCarthy, 1947