Men, my dear, are very queer animals—a mixture of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel malice.
—T. H. Huxley, 1895
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I shall embrace my rival—until I suffocate him.
—Jean Racine, 1669Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art—that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.
—Tennessee Williams, 1944Keep running after a dog, and he will never bite you.
—François Rabelais, 1535At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
—Rose Macaulay, 1925The money market is to a commercial nation what the heart is to man.
—William Pitt, 1805I doubt that we have any right to pity the dead for their own sakes.
—Lord Byron, 1817Fire destroys that which feeds it.
—Simone Weil, c. 1940We should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.
—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is better, only the god knows.
—Socrates, 399 BCIt has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mold, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1790Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter.
—Lewis Strauss, 1954