Quotes

I’m doomed to die, right? Why should I care if I go to Hades either with gout in my leg or a runner’s grace? Plenty of people will carry me there.

—Nicharchus, c. 90

Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.

—Leslie Jamison, 2020

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

—Vladimir Lenin, 1918

The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.

—William Blake, 1793

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

—Upton Sinclair, 1935

All the daughters of music shall be brought low.

—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BC

The dead are often just as living to us as the living are, only we cannot get them to believe it. They can come to us, but till we die we cannot go to them. To be dead is to be unable to understand that one is alive.

—Samuel Butler, c. 1888

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

—Karl Kraus, c. 1910

I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.

—Zsa Zsa Gabor

Trade’s proud empire hastes to swift decay.

—Oliver Goldsmith, 1770

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

—George Santayana, 1905

Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.

—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885

There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.

—Jean-Luc Godard, 1965

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