An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
—Plato, c. 360 BC
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Machines do not run in order to enable men to live, but we resign ourselves to feeding men in order that they may serve the machines.
—Simone Weil, 1934A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.
—Eric Hodgins, 1964Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.
—Louis Brandeis, 1928Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
—Gertrude Stein, 1914From the cradle to the coffin, underwear comes first.
—Bertolt Brecht, 1928Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?
—Brooks Atkinson, 1940Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth. Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
—Julie Burchill, 1986Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.
—William Blake, c. 1790Till taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.
—Lord Byron, 1819The greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1971Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.
—Immanuel Kant, 1781