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A world is sooner destroyed than made.

—Thomas Burnet, 1684

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

—Stendhal, 1822

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

—André Gide, 1927

When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him.

—Francis Bacon, 1625

All art is a revolt against man’s fate.

—André Malraux, 1951

Nature never jests.

—Albrecht von Haller, 1751

Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world: it gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. The picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

—Susan B. Anthony, 1896

Those who cross the seas change their climate but not their character.

—Roman proverb

God is our father, but even more is God our mother.

—Pope John Paul I, 1978

The sea is mother-death, and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.

—Anne Sexton, 1971

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

—Robertson Davies, 1985

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BC

One who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.

—Ptahhotep, c. 2400 BC