What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 BC
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Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.
—George Santayana, 1920There are truths that prove their discoverers witless.
—Karl Kraus, 1909Why listen to me? I can only predict epidemics and plagues.
—Larry Kramer, 1992Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.
—Charles I, 1636Where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
—George Santayana, c. 1905A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn’t go.
—Alexander Woollcott, c. 1935You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
—Bill Clinton, 1996No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
—Samuel Johnson, 1776The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.
—Eric Hodgins, 1964Exile lacks the grandeur, the majesty, of expatriation.
—Bharati Mukherjee, 1999