Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods—restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.
—Robert Burton, 1621
Archive
Quotes
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
—Upton Sinclair, 1935There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
—John Locke, 1689The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886Imagine a number of men in chains, all under sentence of death, some of whom are each day butchered in the sight of the others; those remaining see their own condition in that of their fellows and, looking at each other with grief and despair, await their turn. This is an image of the human condition.
—Blaise Pascal, 1669The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010Charity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956You can’t find the soul with a scalpel.
—Gustave Flaubert, c. 1880Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water.
—Zadie Smith, 2000It was lonesome, the leaving.
—Wetatonmi, c. 1877Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
—Samuel Johnson, 1771If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
—Jean Genet, 1949