The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
—Saint Augustine, c. 390
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Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
—George W. Bush, 2004I won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God.
—Madonna, c. 1985I came upon no wine, / So wonderful as thirst.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1923Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the grand climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
—Jean Baudrillard, 1987If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.
—Martial, c. 86Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1973I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1928Years are nothing to me—they should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or to consider them? In the world of wild nature, time is measured by seasons only—the bird does not know how old it is—the rose tree does not count its birthdays!
—Marie Corelli, 1911Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738Everyone lives by selling something.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1892Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1819