Thomas Browne Quotes

There is no commonwealth at this day in Europe wherein there is not great store of poor people, and those necessarily to be relieved by the wealthier sort, which otherwise would starve and come to utter confusion. With us the poor is commonly divided into three sorts, so that some are poor by impotence, as the fatherless child, the aged, blind, and lame, and the diseased person that is judged to be incurable; the second are poor by casualty, as the wounded soldier, the decayed householder, and the sick person visited with grievous and painful diseases; the third consisteth of thriftless poor, as the rioter that hath consumed all, the vagabond that will abide nowhere, but runneth up and down from place to place (as it were seeking work and finding none), and finally the rogue and the strumpet, which are not possible to be divided in sunder, but run to and fro over all the realm, chiefly keeping the champaign soils in summer to avoid the scorching heat, and the woodland grounds in winter to eschew the blustering winds.

I have always said I would love to go to America, and with a name like Hollywood, it's perfect isn't it?

I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.

A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.

We are the bees of the invisible. We madly gather the honey of the visible to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible.

So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash.

He had no money and no home; he lived entirely on the road of the racing circuit, sleeping in empty stalls, carrying with him only a saddle, his rosary, and his books...The books were the closest thing he had to furniture, and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.

The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.

The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.

This fine young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water, and only lacked the one good trait in the common catalogue of debauched vices - open-handedness - to be a notable vagabond. But there his griping and penurious habits stepped in; and as one poison will sometimes neutralise another, when wholesome remedies would not avail, so he was restrained by a bad passion from quaffing his full measure of evil, when virtue might have sought to hold him back in vain.

Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.

I'm very proud of being a Bee Gee and am always aware that I'll be identified as a Bee Gee.

For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.

When I do overcome my fear - what's going to happen is that I'm going to want a plane.

I have a terrible wanderthirst; the very sight of a map makes me want to put on my hat and take an umbrella and start. I shall see before I die the palms and temples of the South.

Most vagabonds i knowed don't ever want to find the culprit that remains the object of their long relentless quest. The obsession's in the chasing and not the apprehending, the pursuit you see and never the arrest" - Tom Waits "Foreign Affairs

I've always wanted to come to Greece.

[Immigrating] didn't burn out my desire to travel, though that can happen. There's nothing like immigration to make you want to just stay put. But what I think of as home is this life between Santo Domingo and the parts of New Jersey and New York City that were my childhood, so in my mind it's like home is all those things combined.

The more learned and witty you bee, the more fit to act for Satan will you bee.