Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live.
—Anatole Broyard, 1989
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Enemies are so stimulating.
—Katharine Hepburn, 1969Envy is the basis of democracy.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.
—Susan Sontag, 1977Two crimes undid me: a poem and a mistake.
—Ovid, 10The freedom or immunity from coercion in matters religious, which is the endowment of persons as individuals, is also to be recognized as their right when they act in community. Religious communities are a requirement of the social nature both of man and of religion itself.
—Pope Paul VI, 1965As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
—Pope John Paul II, 1986In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
—Mark Twain, 1897Every country has the government it deserves.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1811It is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.
—James Hutton, 1795It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
—Jean de La Fontaine, 1668It seems to me that we all look at nature too much and live with her too little.
—Oscar Wilde, 1897We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
—Aesop, c. 600 BC