Slang is as old as speech and the congregating together of people in cities. It is the result of crowding and excitement and artificial life.
—John Camden Hotten, 1859
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In every man is a wild beast; most of them don’t know how to hold it back, and the majority give it full rein when they are not restrained by terror of law.
—Frederick the Great, 1759The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871I imagined it was more difficult to die.
—Louis XIV, 1715Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan, 1943Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.
—Terence, 161 BCI have often been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
—Thucydides, c. 404 BCNothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them.
—Charles Lamb, 1810In a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins its case.
—Rwandan proverbThe doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
—Sigmund Freud, 1912The land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
—The BibleDemocracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
—Eleanor Roosevelt, 1942Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.
—E.M. Forster, 1910