If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988Quotes
Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.
—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible.
—Herophilus, c. 290 BCI know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborMemory is the only
afterlife I can understand.
Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCThe law looks at no one’s face.
—Gabriel Okara, 1964Enemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.
—Elsa Maxwell, 1955Despotism achieves great things illegally; democracy doesn’t even take the trouble to achieve small things legally.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1831I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
—Alexander the Great, c. 323 BCA monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 109There is a city in which you find everything you desire—handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind—all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.
—Rumi, c. 1250When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
—Eugene V. Debs, 1918