Life, Clifton Fadiman


When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

- Clifton Fadiman

여행을 할 때는 여행하고 있는 국가가 너에게 편의를 제공하기 위해 설계된 것이 아니라는 점을 기억하라. 그 나라는 자국민들이 편안하게 살도록 설계되었다.

- 클리프턴 패디먼

Kindness, Malaysian saying


One can pay back the loan of gold,but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.

- Malaysian saying

금을 빌린 빚은 갚을 수 있지만, 친절의 빚은 영원히 갚지 못하고 죽는다.

- 말레이시아속담

Money, Western Proverb


The best use of money is to pay debts.

- Western Proverb

돈을 쓰는 가장 좋은 방법은 빚을 갚는 것이다.

- 서양속담

Amazons, Shakespeare

Charles: Stay, stay thy hands! thou art an Amazon
And fightest with the sword of Deborah.

- Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I, Act I, scene ii.

To Joan la Pucelle (Joan of Arc), after fighting and losing to her.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Amazons

Adversity, Francis Bacon

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

- Francis Bacon, Essays, Of Adversity (1597).

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adversity

Birthday., John Glenn

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

- John Glenn

Animals, James A. Froude

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

- James A. Froude, Oceana, or, England and Her Colonies (1886) [C. Scribner's Sons, 1972, ISBN 083699096X, 9780836990966, 396 pages], p. 67

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Anthony_Froude

Death, Grand Inquisitor Silecio

Our bodies are prisons for our souls. Our skin and blood, the iron bars of confinement. But fear not. All flesh decays. Death turns all to ash. And thus, death frees every soul.

- Grand Inquisitor Silecio, in The Fountain, screenplay by Darren Aronofsky.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Death

Mind, Isaac Asimov

It is the nature of the mind that makes individuals kin, and the differences in the shape, form or manner of the material atoms out of whose intricate relationships that mind is built are altogether trivial.

- Isaac Asimov, The Beginning and the End (1977) as quoted in Todd Siler, Breaking the Mind Barrier (1997)

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mind

Anemone, William Cullen Bryant

Within the woods,
Whose young and half transparent leaves scarce cast
A shade, gray circles of anemones
Danced on their stalks.

- William Cullen Bryant, The Old Man's Counsel.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Flowers#Anemone