There are three things the prospective traveler to Russia does well to bear in mind. One: It is their country. Two: Most foreigners are profoundly relieved that this is so. Three: You don't have to go. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood in his… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
I've got a heart like a college prom. Each one I dance with seems the best of all. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
George Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
when men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet when women… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who have appeared… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
Prolonged statistics are a lethal dose, which if it does not kill will certainly dispel your audience. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
You can always spot a well informed man his views are the same as yours. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
