Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey’s fits and starts, rehearses life’s own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things. Raban, Jonathan
Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck du Seneca
Like an image in a dream the world is troubled by love, hatred, and other poisons. So long as the dream lasts, the image appears to be real; but on awaking it vanishes. Sankara
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. Burton, Robert
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. Gordon, George
Luck affects everything. let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish. Ovid
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. Mencken, H.L.
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart. Rushdie, Salman
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. Bierce, Ambrose
Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds. Goethe, Johann Von
