Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
—Gore Vidal, 1973
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A win always seems shallow: it is the loss that is so profound and suggests nasty infinities.
—E.M. Forster, 1919Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.
—Derek Walcott, 1986Perish the universe, provided I have my revenge.
—Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, 1654Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, / And say my glory was I had such friends.
—W.B. Yeats, 1937The mere existence of nuclear weapons by the thousands is an incontrovertible sign of human insanity.
—Isaac Asimov, 1988Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world: it gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. The picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
—Susan B. Anthony, 1896I think it makes small difference to the dead if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All this is an empty glorification left for those who live.
—Euripides, 415 BCMedication alone is not to be relied on. In one half the cases medicine is not needed, or is worse than useless. Obedience to spiritual and physical laws—hygiene of the body and hygiene of the spirit—is the surest warrant for health and happiness.
—Harriot K. Hunt, 1856Every thought is, strictly speaking, an afterthought.
—Hannah Arendt, 1978There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.
—James Howell, 1659Water its living strength first shows, / When obstacles its course oppose.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1815