In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.
—Thomas Szasz, 1970
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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1886Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world: it gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. The picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
—Susan B. Anthony, 1896There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.
—Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1714To be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold office.
—Quintus Fabius Maximus, c. 203 BCIt is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
—Upton Sinclair, 1935Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
—William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847Does anybody really want to attend to cities other than to flee, fleece, privatize, butcher, or decimate them?
—Jane Holtz Kay, 1992Man is a tool-using animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1836Memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.
—Harriet Doerr, 1978There’s hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea. It is down there that the sea folk live.
—Hans Christian Andersen, 1837Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan, 1943