A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BC
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Better free in a strange land than a slave at home.
—German proverbThere are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
—Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, 1989People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.
—Bayard Rustin, 1986The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
—B.F. Skinner, 1969He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCIt is noble to die before doing anything that deserves death.
—Anaxandrides, c. 376Disease is not of the body but of the place.
—Latin proverbI quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BCThe sea receives us in a proper way only when we are without clothes.
—Pliny the Elder, 77Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
—Walter Scott, 1823To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.
—Charles Lamb, 1833Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
—Tennessee Williams, 1951