Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.
—E.M. Forster, 1910
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Enemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.
—Elsa Maxwell, 1955Physician, heal yourself: thus you help your patient too. Let his best help be to see with his own eyes the man who makes himself well.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, c. 1884Why is a ship under sail more poetical than a hog in a high wind? The hog is all nature, the ship is all art.
—Lord Byron, 1821Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.
—Edmund Burke, 1790There is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCFrom hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.
—Herman Melville, 1851All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCEducation is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCWit enables us to act rudely with impunity.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.
—George W. Bush, 2005In dealing with the dead, if we treat them as if they were entirely dead, that would show a want of affection and should not be done; or, if we treat them as if they were entirely alive, that would show a want of wisdom and should not be done.
—Confucius, c. 500 BC