When nature is overriden, she takes her revenge.
—Marya Mannes, 1958
Archive
Quotes
He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
—Bernard De Voto, 1951Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will—whatever we may think.
—Lawrence Durrell, 1957God is alive. Magic is afoot.
—Leonard Cohen, 1966What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains and studying night and day how to fly?
—William Law, 1728If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCA little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCMan is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
—Anatole France, 1881Cooking is the most massive rush. It’s like having the most amazing hard-on, with Viagra sprinkled on top of it, and it’s still there twelve hours later.
—Gordon Ramsey, 2003In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
—Gertrude Stein, 1937