Quotes

If people think Nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

—Kurt Vonnegut, 1988

Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.

—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913

The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible.

—Herophilus, c. 290 BC

I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.

—Zsa Zsa Gabor

Memory is the only
afterlife I can understand.

—Lisel Mueller, 1996

Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BC

The law looks at no one’s face.

—Gabriel Okara, 1964

Enemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.

—Elsa Maxwell, 1955

Despotism achieves great things illegally; democracy doesn’t even take the trouble to achieve small things legally.

—Honoré de Balzac, 1831

I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

—Alexander the Great, c. 323 BC

A monument is money wasted. My memory will live on if my life has deserved it.

—Pliny the Younger, c. 109

There 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. 1250

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

—Eugene V. Debs, 1918

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