When man wanted to make a machine that would walk, he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.
—Guillaume Apollinaire, 1917
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The young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
—Sigmund Freud, 1912In all the ancient states and empires, those who had the shipping, had the wealth.
—William Petty, 1690We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015There was a great deal of drinking among us but little drunkenness. We all seemed to feel that Prohibition was a personal affront and that we had a moral duty to undermine it.
—Elizabeth Anderson, 1969Too often, where we need water we find guns.
—Ban Ki-moon, 2008It’s the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
—Helen MacInnes, 1963The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible.
—Herophilus, c. 290 BCLiving is an ailment that is relieved every sixteen hours by sleep. A palliative. Death is the cure.
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, c. 1790Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
—Arthur Wellesley, c. 1830God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.
—Pablo Picasso, 1964If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003