An ugly sight, a man who’s afraid.
—Jean Anouilh, 1944
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I do love cricket—it’s so very English.
—Sarah Bernhardt, c. 1908A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
—Pliny the Elder, c. 77“I think, therefore I am” is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
—Milan Kundera, 1990Whoever has died is freed from sin.
—St. Paul, c. 50Nature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
—Bernard De Voto, 1951It belongs to a nobleman to weep in an hour of disaster.
—Euripides, 412 BCIf we pretend to respect the artist at all, we must allow him his freedom of choice, in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify. Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.
—Henry James, 1884Most authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.
—Davy Crockett, 1834Words pay no debts.
—William Shakespeare, 1601I have always found it in mine own experience an easier matter to devise many and profitable inventions than to dispose of one of them to the good of the author himself.
—Hugh Plat, 1595