Avoid the law—the first loss is generally the least.
—Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee, 1844
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It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
—Cory Doctorow, 2013Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764Nature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851Thou art not to learn the humors and tricks of that old bald cheater, time.
—Ben Jonson, 1601The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes “sightseeing.”
—Daniel Boorstin, 1961I think that to get under the surface and really appreciate the beauty of any country, one has to go there poor.
—Grace Moore, 1944I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
—Michelangelo Antonioni, 1967Take back your golden fiddles, and we’ll beat to open sea.
—Rudyard Kipling, 1892Shamelessness is the shame of being without shame.
—Mencius, c. 290 BCMen take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600I never yet could make out why men are so fond of hunting; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields—and all for a hare or a fox or a stag that they could get more easily some other way.
—Anna Sewell, 1877When you drink water, think of its source.
—Chinese proverb