He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1833
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Enemies to me are the sauce piquant to my dish of life.
—Elsa Maxwell, 1955Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.
—Juvenal, 128A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
—Stendhal, 1822Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942Do you suppose that will change the sense of the morals, the fact that we can’t use morals as a means of judging the city because we couldn’t stand it? And that we’re changing our whole moral system to suit the fact that we’re living in a ridiculous way?
—Philip Johnson, 1965Do you not see how God is praised by those in the heavens and those on earth? The very birds praised Him as they wing their way.
—The Qur’an, c. 620It is more blessed to give than to receive.
—Acts of the Apostles, c. 80When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, “He is better off.”
—Edgar Watson Howe, 1911I 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, 1877We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
—Barbara Ward, 1972My people and I have come to an agreement that satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.
—Frederick the Great, c. 1770To gaze upon a drop of water is to behold the nature of all the waters of the universe.
—Huangbo Xiyun, c. 850