Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
—James Madison, 1794
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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
—Laurence Sterne, 1760The mill will never grind with water that is past.
—Daniel McCallum, 1870I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
—Coretta Scott King, 1994I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.
—Groucho Marx, 1959Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860Human happiness never remains long in the same place.
—Herodotus, c. 430 BCWe wish away whole years, and travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in it.
—Joseph Addison, 1711If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, c. 1513Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract—teach him to deduct.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
—Germaine Greer, 1970