Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.
—Immanuel Kant, 1784
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Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.
—Bian Qiao, c. 500 BCWe and the dead ride quick at night.
—Gottfried August Bürger, 1773I can’t see (or feel) the conflict between love and religion. To me they’re the same thing.
—Elizabeth Bowen, c. 1970Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
—Hebrews, c. 60The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry to equanimity, receptivity, and peace is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal center of energy.
—William James, 1902Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1776All law is of necessity defective in the beginning.
—Han Yu, c. 800I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.
—Catherine the Great, c. 1796If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
—Charles M. Allen, 1967Do you not see how God is praised by those in the heavens and those on earth? The very birds praised Him as they wing their way.
—The Qur’an, c. 620The god of music dwelleth out of doors.
—Edith M. Thomas, 1887