“What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches?” — The Quarterly Review, March 1825

“Remember, we’re all in this alone.” — Lily Tomlin

“Ours has been the first [expedition], and doubtless to be the last, to visit this profitless locality.” — Lt. Joseph Ives, after visiting the Grand Canyon, 1861

“I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room and, goddammit, died in a hotel room.”

— Eugene O’Neill’s last words

“If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans.” — Otto von Bismarck, 1898

“Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” — Leonardo da Vinci

“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know can’t hurt me.” — Abraham Lincoln

“Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.” — Samuel Butler