I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
—Susan Sontag, 1977
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Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.
—Veronica Wedgwood, 1946How can we bear misfortune most easily? If we see our enemies faring worse.
—Thales of Miletus, c. 585 BCA win always seems shallow: it is the loss that is so profound and suggests nasty infinities.
—E.M. Forster, 1919Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.
—Anthony Burgess, 1964The men of today are born to criticize; of Achilles they see only the heel.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880Enemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.
—Elsa Maxwell, 1955Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan, 1943It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.
—Martin Luther King Jr., 1962No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
—Abraham LincolnMen were born to lie, and women to believe them.
—John Gay, 1728There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891