Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
—Jane Austen, 1815
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These useless men ought to be cut up and served at a banquet. I really believe that athletes have less intelligence than swine.
—Dio Chrysostom, c. 95Every country has the government it deserves.
—Joseph de Maistre, 1811In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
—Voltaire, 1764Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.
—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan, 1943Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
—Roald Dahl, 1990All the married heiresses I have known have shipwrecked.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.
—Albert Camus, 1951To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735