The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.
—Francis Bacon, 1605
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Man punishes the action, but God the intention.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813Communities do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1863It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
—Upton Sinclair, 1935You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
—Cormac McCarthy, 2005The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. We go on a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences—to leave ourselves behind, much more to get rid of others.
—William Hazlitt, 1822Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
—Jonathan Swift, 1738My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968One need merely visit the marketplace and the graveyard to determine whether a city is in both physical and metaphysical order.
—Ernst Jünger, 1977What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
—Erasmus, 1515Business is other people’s money.
—Delphine de Girardin, 1852A sick child is always the mother’s property; her own feelings generally make it so.
—Jane Austen, 1816