Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
—Susan Sontag, 1963
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Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1939Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833The greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1971The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of bourgeois stupidity.
—Gustave Flaubert, 1871A functioning police state needs no police.
—William S. Burroughs, 1959Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?
—Aristophanes, 423 BCRevenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
—William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844Whatever the apparent cause of any riots may be, the real one is always want of happiness.
—Thomas Paine, 1792The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.
—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
—Socrates, c. 430 BC