At Casa Blanca – Consuls abound, of course, so do hyenas – that is outside the town – but both are harmless and furnish little sport.
Places Quotes
We then walked to the Pantheon…. I said there was not half a guinea’s worth in seeing this place. Johnson: “But Sir, there is half a guinea’s worth of inferiority to other people in not having seen it. Boswell: “I doubt, Sir, whether there are many happy people here. Johnson: “Yes, Sir, there are many […]
One of the strongest prejudices that one has to overcome when one visits Australia is that created by the weird jargon than passes for English in this country.
I like it (Chicago) in spite of lake-wind sharpness and prairie flatness, damp tunnels, swinging bridges, hard water, and easy divorces… A lady from the East lately said of it, very charmingly, “It is New York with the heart left in.”
To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough.
Poor Mexico! So far from God and so close to the United States.
Peru, it may be fairly said, is the only nation in the world which lived basically for a long time on bird manure.
Denmark is no vacation paradise. It is cold and rainy and dark except for June and July, when it’s extremely expensive.
I guess it is the physical and cultural remoteness of South Dakota that compels everyone to memorialize almost every South Dakotan who has ever left the state and achieved some recognition. As a child I would pore over newspapers and magazines, looking for some sign that the rest of the world knew we existed.
It is hard for man to make any city worthy of such surroundings as Nature has given to Rio.
