A broken friendship may be soldered but will never be sound.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732
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Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it—have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.
—James Russell Lowell, 1884Let my epitaph be, “Here lies Joseph, who failed in everything he undertook.”
—Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, 1790The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command.
—Alexander of Tralles, c. 600A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1679Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
—Arthur Wellesley, c. 1830It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… it seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do—or don’t do.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1966It’s the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.
—Helen MacInnes, 1963The land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
—The BibleYou are dust, and to dust you shall return.
—Book of Genesis, c. 800 BCBut look, our seas are what we make of them, full of fish or not, opaque or transparent, red or black, high or smooth, narrow or bankless—and we are ourselves sea, sand, coral, seaweed, beaches, tides, swimmers, children, waves.
—Hélène Cixous, 1976The human working stock is of interest only insofar as it is profitable.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1970