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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

Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.

—William Caxton, 1476

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

—Voltaire, 1770

The world began without man, and it will end without him.

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955

The history of the land has been written very largely in water.

—John Hodgdon Bradley Jr., 1935

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

—Frank Zappa, 1989

To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.

—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688

I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.

—Zsa Zsa Gabor

The civilized man has built a coach but has lost the use of his feet.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.

—Homer, c. 750 BC

To 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. 1872

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

—John Berger, 1972

Every 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