Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.
—Rebecca West, 1959
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Make human nature your study wherever you reside—whatever the religion or the complexion, study their hearts.
—Ignatius Sancho, 1778I have always found it in mine own experience an easier matter to devise many and profitable inventions than to dispose of one of them to the good of the author himself.
—Hugh Plat, 1595When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbSoldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
—William Cecil, Lord Burghley, c. 1555The 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, 1605Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1921The more men are massed together, the more corrupt they become. Disease and vice are the sure results of overcrowded cities.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
—Yves Saint Laurent, 1978Those who believe in freedom of the will have never loved and never hated.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1893We and the dead ride quick at night.
—Gottfried August Bürger, 1773Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897I don’t believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
—Woody Allen, 1971