“memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for”
Zelda Fitzgerald book Save Me the Waltz
Source: Save Me the Waltz
“One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.”
— John Muir, book Our National Parks
Source: Our National Parks
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“There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.”
James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
"The Fairly Intelligent Fly", The New Yorker (4 February 1939), a tale of a fly who avoided getting caught in an empty spider web, but then disregarding a warning by a bee, settled down among other flies he believed to be "dancing", and "became stuck to the flypaper with all the other flies."; Fables for Our Time & Famous Poems Illustrated (1940); Quote Investigator notes that this statement was referred to as "Thurber’s Law", in 1,001 Logical Laws (1979) https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/07/21/safety/<br><br>Ref: en.wikiquote.org - James Thurber / Quotes / Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time <br class="br">From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time
Rati Tsiteladze (1987) Georgian Filmmaker
As Quoted in The Gerorgian Times in 2008 http://www.geotimes.ge/index.php?m=home&newsid=12354.eng
George Washington Plunkitt (1842–1924) New York State Senator
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 1, Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft
Arie de Geus (1930) Dutch businessman
Source: The Living Company, 1997, p. 182
“Nothing is more dangerous than a place of safety.”
Robert Ferrigno (1947) American writer
Prayers For The Assassin (2006)
William Hargreaves (1880–1941) English composer
Song I Know Where The Flies Go.
