It was lonesome, the leaving.
—Wetatonmi, c. 1877
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What a glut of books! Who can read them? As already, we shall have a vast chaos and confusion of books; we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.
—Robert Burton, 1621Life’s no resting, but a moving.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795It’s the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
—Helen MacInnes, 1963When the root lives on, the new leaves come back.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCIn the Middle Ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
—Robert Runcie, 1988Civilization, a much-abused word, stands for a high matter quite apart from telephones and electric lights.
—Edith Hamilton, 1930I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music.
—Giuseppe Verdi, 1900If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.
—Charles Dickens, 1865Idolatry is the mother of all games.
—Novatian, c. 255One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1958Drink does not drown care but waters it, and makes it grow faster.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1749The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
—Wendell Berry, 1983