The waters are nature’s storehouse, in which she locks up her wonders.
—Izaak Walton, 1653
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Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live.
—Anatole Broyard, 1989There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
—Homer, c. 750 BCThe friend of all humanity is no friend to me.
—Molière, 1666As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverbIf we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.
—George W. Bush, 2005There is a city in which you find everything you desire—handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind—all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.
—Rumi, c. 1250Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
—Amiri Baraka, 1962The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.
—Winston Churchill, 1943All the married heiresses I have known have shipwrecked.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
—Chinua Achebe, 1958When a coward sees a man he can beat, he becomes hungry for a fight.
—Chinua Achebe, 1960