The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935
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At the start there’s always energy.
—Suzan-Lori Parks, 2006A traveler’s chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad—as well as good—example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.
—Jonathan Swift, 1726You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.
—William Randolph Hearst, 1898It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own interest.
—Adam Smith, 1776Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations—wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
—Edmund Burke, 1795I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1928Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
—Socrates, c. 430 BCPolitics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.
—Catherine the Great, c. 1796The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
—Bernard De Voto, 1951Memory is more indelible than ink.
—Anita Loos, 1974Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851