Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.
—Euripides, 431 BC
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A dog starved at his master’s gate / Predicts the ruin of the state.
—William Blake, 1807No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1860Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.
—John Wilkes Booth, 1865For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
—Bernard De Voto, 1951The 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 is better to live unknown to the law.
—Irish proverbLife’s no resting, but a moving.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
—John Morley, 1872When the physician said to him, “You have lived to be an old man,” he said, “That is because I never employed you as my physician.”
—Pausanias, c. 450 BCOne of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1977In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
—V.S. Pritchett, 1968