Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan, 1943
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The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
—Joshua Slocum, 1900Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
—Saint Augustine, 397I wants to make your flesh creep.
—Charles Dickens, 1837Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.
—William Empson, 1928It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.
—Francis Bacon, 1620You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.
—Horace, 20 BCAll progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890Strangers are an endangered species.
—Adrienne Rich, 1980Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.
—Sarah Bernhardt, 1904The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1838It 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, 1776Happiness is a warm puppy.
—Charles Schulz, 1971