"Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.
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“The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.”
“There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?”
“Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.”
More on Cities
“You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a maximum amount of great stuff to eat in the smallest areas.”
“We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.”
“If the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital.”
More on Experience
“A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.”
“Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who could ever clutch it? Go forth to find it, and it is gone: 't is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence.”
“Experience is knowledge. All the rest is information.”