And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855
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A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in / A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.
—Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1895We need strength, we need energy, we need quickness, and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
—Donald Trump, 2015Nature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
—John Ruskin, 1856Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967The fox knows lots of tricks, the hedgehog only one—but it’s a winner.
—Archilochus, c. 650 BCIn the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.
—Thomas Szasz, 1970Man is merely a more perfect animal than the rest. He reasons better.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1816It costs a lot to make a person look this cheap.
—Dolly Parton, 1994Far water cannot quench near fire.
—Japanese proverb