Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth.
—Francis Picabia, 1949
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A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated has not the art of getting drunk.
—Samuel Johnson, 1779The drunken man is a living corpse.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 390Every man is worth just so much as the things he busies himself with.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175Emigration is easy, but immigration is something else. To flee, yes; but to be accepted?
—Victoria Wolff, 1943In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.
—Thomas Szasz, 1970Because the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable and worshipful ancestors had not recovered from their ailments, you and I would not be here today.
—Confucius, c. 515 BCI think we are inexterminable, like flies and bedbugs.
—Robert Frost, 1959One need merely visit the marketplace and the graveyard to determine whether a city is in both physical and metaphysical order.
—Ernst Jünger, 1977I think it makes small difference to the dead if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. All this is an empty glorification left for those who live.
—Euripides, 415 BCHistories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
—Alexander Pope, 1709Death from the bubonic plague is rated, with crucifixion, among the nastiest human experiences of all.
—Guy R. Williams, 1975Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885