The true art of memory is the art of attention.
—Samuel Johnson, 1759
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To hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat.
—Milan Kundera, 1978Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009Man is a tool-using animal. Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
—Thomas Carlyle, 1836There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.
—Eleanor Robson Belmont, 1957Appearances are a glimpse of the obscure.
—Anaxagoras, c. 450 BCThe best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871I never yet could make out why men are so fond of hunting; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields—and all for a hare or a fox or a stag that they could get more easily some other way.
—Anna Sewell, 1877Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan, 1943Imitate the ass in his love to his master.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 388In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
—Mark Twain, 1897There lurks in every human heart a desire of distinction which inclines every man first to hope and then to believe that nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
—Samuel Johnson, 1763Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890