Archive

Quotes

As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.

—Chinua Achebe, 1958

Inventor, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers, and springs and believes it civilization.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1911

Everyone knows about everybody in Hollywood—who sleeps with whom, who doesn’t sleep, who does it standing on his head or in the dentist’s chair.

—Rock Hudson, 1982

It seems to me that we all look at nature too much and live with her too little.

—Oscar Wilde, 1897

It is not my design to drink or sleep; my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.

—Oliver Cromwell, 1658

It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.

—Adelle Davis, 1951

One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy.

—George Eliot, 1844

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

—Agnes Repplier, 1916

Enemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.

—Elsa Maxwell, 1955

Knowledge itself is power.

—Francis Bacon, 1597

The young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.

—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747

Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1939

When the physician said to him, “You have lived to be an old man,” he said, “That is because I never employed you as my physician.”

—Pausanias, c. 450 BC