“A life without a holiday is like a long journey without an inn to rest at.”
Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
Huckabee Says What His Opponents Won’t
Niall
Stanage
2007-12-18
http://www.observer.com/2007/huckabee-says-what-his-opponents-won-t
New York Observer
2007-12-15
“A life without a holiday is like a long journey without an inn to rest at.”
Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory
Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
Yoweri Museveni (1944) President of Uganda
As quoted in "Pressure builds for change" https://web.archive.org/web/201204251111/http://www.global-briefing.org/2012/04/pressure-builds-for-change/ (April 2012), by Benon Herbert Oluka, Global: The International Briefing <br class="br">2010s
“I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wakeup letter.”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
“Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?”
Terry Pratchett book Going Postal
Source: Going Postal
“I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy.”
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
Campaign stop, Redwood, California, September 27, 2000 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2000/nov/04/uselections2000.usa5 <br class="br">2000s, 2000
Tom Clancy (1947–2013) American author
On the 1991 Gulf War
1990s, CNN interview (1999)
Context: I think it's going to be remembered as the last major war on planet Earth, if we're lucky, if we maintain our foreign policy properly. … It will be remembered as the last time major countries had to put people in the field and put them in harm's way. It may be the last of all human nature wars, which is a nice way to remember any kind of a war, as the last one.
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
A Factless Autobiography, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, 2006, p. 40
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Considero a vida uma estalagem onde tenho que me demorar até que chegue a diligência do abismo. Não sei onde ela me levará, porque não sei nada.
Victor Davis Hanson (1953) American military historian, essayist, university professor
2010s, The Deflation of the Academic Brand (2018)