Original Article: http://dartreview.com/archives/2005/08/26/the_last_word.php
Friday, August 26, 2005
Abroad is bloody.
—George VI
What an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home, and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile attempt to recapture the comforts that you wouldn't have lost if you hadn't left home in the first place.
—Bill Bryson, Neither Here Nor There
They say travel broadens the mind; but you must have a mind.
—G. K. Chesterton
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.
—Benjamin Franklin
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a free country more especially, ten men who care are worth a hundred who do not.
—James Bryce
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
—Theodore Roosevelt
The world is governed much more by opinion than by laws. It is not the judgment of courts, but the moral judgment of individuals and masses of men, which is the chief wall of defense round property and life.
—William Ellery Channing
The firm basis of government is justice, not pity.
—Woodrow Wilson
An intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of the Lone Ranger.
—Anonymous
The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer because smaller things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of suffering.
—Thomas Merton
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
—Calvin Coolidge
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
—Henry David Thoreau
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
—Calvin Coolidge
I would rather be a servant in the house of the Lord than sit in the seat of the mighty.
—Alben Barkley, last words
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
—Bret Harte
The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.
—James Fenimore Cooper
Power must never be trusted without a check.
—John Adams
Government neither subsists nor arises because it is good or useful, but solely it is inevitable.
—George Santayana
Great men are rarely isolated mountainpeaks; they are the summits of ranges.
—Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Somewhere in the world there is defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.
—John Steinbeck
Progress might have been all right once but it has gone on too long.
—Ogden Nash
Reform for its own sake seldom thrives.
—John Quincy Adams
Revision is just as important as any other part of writing and must be done con amore.
—Evelyn Waugh