Traveling is like gambling: it is ever connected with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1797
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Envy and hatred are apt to blind the eyes and render them unable to behold things as they are.
—Margaret of Valois, c. 1600The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCIn the name of Hippocrates doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
—Michel Foucault, c. 1982I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.
—Edith Konecky, 1976The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chawing a hunk of melon in the dust.
—Elizabeth Bowen, 1955No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.
—Horace, 20 BCNowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
—G.C. Lichtenberg, c. 1780By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955When I do a show, the whole show revolves around me, and if I don’t show up, they can just forget it.
—Ethel Merman, c. 1955The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
—Edward Gibbon, 1788The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844