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Distance |
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Quotations
 | From a distance, everything is beautiful. — Tacitus, 55-120 AD, Roman historian 7 likes |
 | In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 7 likes |
 | One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 5 likes |
 | No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist 5 likes |
 | Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near. — Helen Rowland, 1875-1950, American journalist & humorist 4 likes |
 | Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 4 likes |
 | You never go so far as when you don't know where you are going. — Antoine Rivarol, 1753-1801, French author of maxims 4 likes |
 | Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 3 likes |
 | The words “far, far away” had always a strange charm. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 3 likes |
 | The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater the distance from which it looks back. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 2 likes |
 | Never in history has distance meant less. — Alvin Toffler, 1928-2016, American writer & futurist 1 likes |
 | In Los Angeles, distances are so great that every pedestrian is a suspect. — Frédéric Dard, 1921-2000, French writer 1 likes |
 | It’s hard to see things when you are too close. Take a step back and look. |
 | Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. |
| Any man who rises isolates himself. |
 | And if what is near to you is far away, then your immense space is already touching the stars. |
 | It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying. |
| The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are. |
| Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is. |
| She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close. |
 | The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points. |
 | He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby. |
 | Detachment is the beginning of mastery. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
 | My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon. |
 | Nothing isolates us as much as our secrets. |
Quotes in Verse
 | What I like is my loneliness. No one comes close. |
Funny Quotes
 | Everywhere is walking distance if you've got the time. — Steven Wright, 1955-, American comedian 5 likes |
 | Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you’ll be a mile away and have his shoes. — Steve Martin, 1945-, American actor 4 likes |
 | If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend. — Doug Larson, 1926-2017, American columnist 2 likes |
 | Europe is moving closer to America by one centimeter per century. Yet the price of the crossing remains the same. — François Cavanna, 1923-2014, French humorist 2 likes |
 | On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality. |
Ancient Greek
 | Things do not look the same when viewed from far or near. Ού ταυτόν είδος φαίνεται των πραγμάτων πρόσωθεν όντων εγγύθεν θ’ ορωμένων. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Ion 11 likes |
| Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far. Μη νυν τα πόρρω ταγγύθεν μεθείς σκόπει. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Rhesus 7 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore. — from the film The Wizard of Oz (1939) 4 likes |
