Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
—Fanny Burney, 1782
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I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.
—Herman Melville, 1853A jest breaks no bones.
—Samuel Johnson, 1781I doubt that we have any right to pity the dead for their own sakes.
—Lord Byron, 1817Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 BCUnder all speech that is good for anything, there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1838The drunken man is a living corpse.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 390It costs a lot of money to be rich.
—Peter Boyle, 2002I never even saw the use of the sea. Many a sad heart has it caused, and many a sick stomach has it occasioned! The boldest sailor climbs on board with a heavy soul and leaps on land with a light spirit.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1827There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
—Mark Twain, 1894There’s folks ’ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.
—George Eliot, 1859My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
—Timothy Leary, 1966