874 – “The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.”

–John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton

734 – “Instead of wondering when our next vacation is, maybe we should set up a life we don’t need to escape from.”

–anonymous

301 – “If you would escape moral and physical assassination, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing—court obscurity, for only in oblivion does safety lie.”

–Elbert Hubbard [Often misattributed, see Source Notes]

249 – “War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.”

–Thomas Mann