If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904
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I hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are all odious to me. I should relish getting my living in a simple, primitive fashion.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1855Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
—George Washington, 1783Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.
—Anthony Doerr, 2006Who sleepeth with dogs shall rise with fleas.
—John Florio, 1578I think heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of heaven here.
—Emily Dickinson, 1879To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
—John Buchan, 1940Charity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956Enemies are so stimulating.
—Katharine Hepburn, 1969A crowded police court docket is the surest sign that trade is brisk and money plenty.
—Mark Twain, 1872I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man, not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
—Jean Genet, 1983Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.
—Juvenal, 128