The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951All the married heiresses I have known have shipwrecked.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh.
—Catullus, c. 60 BCAt the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
—Rose Macaulay, 1925Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.
—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BCThe sick man is the parasite of society.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he cannot alter its construction, raise the wind, or stop the waves from swelling beneath his feet.
—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911War is fear cloaked in courage.
—William Westmoreland, 1966Children and fools cannot lie.
—John Heywood, 1546Cooking is the most massive rush. It’s like having the most amazing hard-on, with Viagra sprinkled on top of it, and it’s still there twelve hours later.
—Gordon Ramsey, 2003