Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747
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Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
—Voltaire, 1770The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955The history of the land has been written very largely in water.
—John Hodgdon Bradley Jr., 1935Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
—Frank Zappa, 1989To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborThe civilized man has built a coach but has lost the use of his feet.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
—Homer, c. 750 BCTo be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion—a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge. One may have that condition by fits only.
—George Eliot, c. 1872Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
—John Berger, 1972Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
—John Berger, 1987