A win always seems shallow: it is the loss that is so profound and suggests nasty infinities.
—E.M. Forster, 1919
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My 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. 1770I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborChildhood knows what it wants—to leave childhood behind.
—Jean Cocteau, 1947Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903Everyone complains about his memory, and no one complains about his judgment.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1666See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
—Robert Burton, c. 1620Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
—Joseph Joubert, 1811The sick man is the parasite of society.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 1969Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.
—Charles Lamb, 1810Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776