The law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.
—Voltairine de Cleyre, 1890
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It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street.
—Mary Lease, c. 1890Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.
—Robert P. Hudson, 1983A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn’t go.
—Alexander Woollcott, c. 1935To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbIf I played in New York, they’d name a candy bar after me.
—Reggie Jackson, 1976The greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1971If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
—Bernard De Voto, 1951Let us make our own mistakes, but let us take comfort in the knowledge that they are our own mistakes.
—Tom Mboya, 1958Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 30 BCRevolutions are not about trifles, but they are produced by trifles.
—Aristotle, c. 350 BC