I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1679
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There is a demon who puts wings on certain tales and launches them like eagles out into space.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1846There are many civil questions that arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled.
—William Howard Taft, 1921I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!
—George H. W. Bush, 1990Commerce tends to wear off those prejudices which maintain distinction and animosity between nations.
—William Robertson, 1769As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.
—John Donne, 1622All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
—John Ruskin, 1856For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879People living deeply have no fear of death.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935To gaze upon a drop of water is to behold the nature of all the waters of the universe.
—Huangbo Xiyun, c. 850It is so difficult not to become vain about one’s own good luck.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1963Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.
—Hans Zinsser, 1935