Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
—Woody Allen, 1979
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Everyone complains about his memory, and no one complains about his judgment.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1666A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.
—Cicero, 44 BCThere’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!
—Rachel Field, 1939There’s folks ’ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.
—George Eliot, 1859We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time’s carcass.
—Karl Marx, 1847Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and justly, and impossible to live wisely, well, and justly without living pleasurably.
—Epicurus, c. 300 BCMemory is necessary for all operations of reasoning.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1658All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
—Al Smith, 1933Why is a ship under sail more poetical than a hog in a high wind? The hog is all nature, the ship is all art.
—Lord Byron, 1821Friend! It is a common word, often lightly used. Like other good and beautiful things, it may be tarnished by careless handling.
—Harriet Jacobs, 1861Not all heads have a brain.
—French proverb