There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883
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For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCI think we are inexterminable, like flies and bedbugs.
—Robert Frost, 1959Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.
—George Gershwin, 1933At night comes counsel to the wise.
—Menander, c. 300 BCI hate the sight of monkeys; they remind me so of poor relations.
—Henry Luttrell, 1820What are men anyway but balloons on legs, a lot of blown-up bladders?
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 64All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.
—H.M. Tomlinson, 1912We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850He that commands the sea is at great liberty and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600The merchant always has fresh losses to expect, and the dread of base poverty forbids his rest.
—Decimus Magnus Ausonius, c. 390Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
—Marlene Dietrich, 1962