“For the world, I count it not an Inn, but a Hospital, and a place, not to live, but to die in.”
Thomas Browne book Religio Medici
Section 11
Religio Medici (1643), Part II
She Stoops to Conquer (1771), Act II
“For the world, I count it not an Inn, but a Hospital, and a place, not to live, but to die in.”
Thomas Browne book Religio Medici
Section 11
Religio Medici (1643), Part II
“I think crime pays. The hours are good, you meet a lot of interesting people, you travel a lot.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Take the Money and Run (1969).
“A gentleman of Lincoln's-inn.”
John Holt (Lord Chief Justice) (1642–1710) English lawyer and Lord Chief Justice of England
Butler's Case (1699), 13 How. St. Tr. 1259.
“He who puts up at the first inn he comes across, very often passes a bad night.”
Filippo Baldinucci (1625–1697) Italian art historian
Chi alloggia alia prima osteria in ch’ ei avviene, trova ben spesso la mala notte.
La Veglia. (Ed. Milan, 1812. Opere, Vol. XIV., p. 223).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 261.
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 2
Ethan Hawke (1970) American actor and writer
The Daily Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3620967/Love-that-goes-with-the-flow.html (2004-06-19) <br class="br">2000&ndash;2004
“They should call it the Low Quality Inn.”
Rachel Trachtenburg (1993) American musician
On the lack of quality of the Quality Inn, in which she stayed in with her parents while on tour ( Reprint of The Times http://mycherieamour.blogspot.com/2005/02/trachtenburg-family-slideshow-players.html)
“One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Ecce homo
Man büßt es theuer, unsterblich zu sein: man stirbt dafür mehrere Male bei Lebzeiten.
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Ecce Homo (1888)