| "All the best stories are but one story in reality--the story of ESCAPE. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to ESCAPE." »A. C. Benson |
| "...One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is ESCAPE from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to ESCAPE from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought." »Albert Einstein |
| "The best way to ESCAPE from a problem is to solve it." »Alan Saporta |
| "Those who marry to ESCAPE something usually find something else." »Claire Huchet Bishop |
| "Once a word has been allowed to ESCAPE, it cannot be recalled." »Horace |
| "It is better that ten guilty ESCAPE than one innocent suffer." »William Blackstone |
| "As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot ESCAPE." »John Lancaster Spalding |
| "You cannot ESCAPE the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "We cannot ESCAPE fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures." »Susan Jeffers |
| "Anyone can ESCAPE into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there." »E. M. Cioran |
| "Look beneath the surface let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth ESCAPE thee." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
| "A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to ESCAPE disgrace in death." »Lucius Accius |
| "If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will ESCAPE a hundred days of sorrow." »Chinese Proverb |
| "The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and ESCAPE all responsibility." »Brooks Atkinson |
| "Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll ESCAPE." »Wystan Hugh Auden |
| "A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to ESCAPE the censures of the world." »English Proverb |
| "Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an ESCAPE, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on." »Steven Patrick Callahan |
| "Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to ESCAPE the tediousness of life." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "A person in danger should not try to ESCAPE at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations." »I Ching |
| "Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary ESCAPE into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment." »Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey |
| "Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to ESCAPE the necessity of choice." »Ayn Rand |
| "Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not ESCAPE calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go." »William Shakespeare |
| "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which ESCAPE those who dream only by night." »Edgar Allan Poe |
| "This--this was what made life a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice...a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to ESCAPE." »Roger Bannister |
| "Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an ESCAPE from poverty." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to ESCAPE from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own." »H.L. Mencken |
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