There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BC
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Secrets are rarely betrayed or discovered according to any program our fear has sketched out.
—George Eliot, 1860The human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.
—George Herbert, 1651Men, my dear, are very queer animals—a mixture of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel malice.
—T. H. Huxley, 1895Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.
—Johannes Kepler, 1605Friendship! Sir, there can be no such thing without an equality.
—George Farquhar, 1702We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.
—Winston Churchill, 1948This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
—Abraham Lincoln, 1861Is this dying? Is this all? Is this all that I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear it!
—Cotton Mather, 1728Music today is nothing more than the art of performing difficult pieces.
—Voltaire, 1759I have given up considering happiness as relevant.
—Edward Gorey, 1974