It is remarkable that only small birds properly sing.
—Charles Darwin, 1871
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Knowledge itself is power.
—Francis Bacon, 1597Revolutions are always verbose.
—Leon Trotsky, 1933At the start there’s always energy.
—Suzan-Lori Parks, 2006How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort in a hospital.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1857One of the things men should most strive to do is win a good reputation and see that no one questions it.
—Juan Manuel, 1335There is no happiness like that of a young couple in a little house they have built themselves in a place of beauty and solitude.
—Annie Proulx, 2008I never yet could make out why men are so fond of hunting; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields—and all for a hare or a fox or a stag that they could get more easily some other way.
—Anna Sewell, 1877The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command.
—Alexander of Tralles, c. 600I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.
—Albert Camus, 1957Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.
—Leslie Jamison, 2020No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
—Abraham LincolnLiving is an ailment that is relieved every sixteen hours by sleep. A palliative. Death is the cure.
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1790