Avoid the law—the first loss is generally the least.
—Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee, 1844
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Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, “I would stay here and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”
—Lisa St. Aubin de Terán, 1989A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
—George Eliot, 1876The fact is certain because it is impossible.
—Tertullian, c. 200To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
—John Buchan, 1940What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge.
—Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, 1654The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.
—Galen, c. 175Each night’s new terror drives away the terror of the night before.
—Sophocles, c. 450 BCWhen poets don’t know what to say and have completely given up on the play, just like a finger, they lift the machine and the spectators are satisfied.
—Antiphanes, c. 350 BCTomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
—Mark Twain, 1894Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, c. 45 BC