Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.
—Chinese proverb
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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, 1884Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1758An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
—Plato, c. 360 BCSeek not water, only show you are thirsty, / That water may spring up all around you.
—Rumi, c. 1260To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation.
—Oliver Sacks, 2012A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670I live by good soup, and not on fine language.
—Molière, 1672Memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.
—Harriet Doerr, 1978Seafarers go to sleep in the evening not knowing whether they will find themselves at the bottom of the sea the next morning.
—Jean de Joinville, c. 1305The deed is everything, the glory naught.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832The doctor occupies a seat in the front row of the stalls of the human drama, and is constantly watching and even intervening in the tragedies, comedies, and tragicomedies which form the raw material of the literary art.
—W. Russell Brain, 1952A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1897