Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942
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Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.
—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCEvery man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
—Yves Saint Laurent, 1978I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
—Galileo Galilei, 1615There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
—Francis Bacon, 1625We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 1969A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.
—Ethiopian proverbAnimals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men, but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
—Joseph Addison, 1711Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
—George Eliot, 1876I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.
—David Hume, 1751