(1297 quotes found)
“A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“At last, fortissimo! [On visiting Niagara]”
Gustav Mahler
“When Sir Humphry Davy returned from a visit to Paris he was asked how the picture galleries had impressed him. "The finest collection of frames I ever saw," he said.”
Humphrey Davy
“Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends”
Henry Louis Mencken
“I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.”
Wallis Simpson Duchess of Windsor
“At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound. This was revolutionary. Here were entire stalls of candy, naked as the day they were born, piled up two feet high and God knows how deep. What it was beauty.”
Steve Almond
“Only he shall visit the mosques of Allah who believes in Allah and the latter day, and keeps up prayer and pays the poor-rate and fears none but Allah; so (as for) these, it may be that they are of the followers of the right course. (The Immunity 9.1”
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“I have a lot of boyfriends, I want you to write that. Every country I visit, I have a different boyfriend. And I kiss them all.”
Anna Kournikova
“Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never”
Anna Jameson
“Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts / a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.”
Henry David Thoreau
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