I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.
—Jane Austen, c. 1798
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The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871Love is giving something you haven’t got to someone who doesn’t exist.
—Jacques LacanThere is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
—Kathleen Norris, 1931Some things are privileged from jest—namely, religion, matters of state, great persons, all men’s present business of importance, and any case that deserves pity.
—Francis Bacon, 1597I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?
—Andy Warhol, 1963It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter.
—Lewis Strauss, 1954Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1911Make human nature your study wherever you reside—whatever the religion or the complexion, study their hearts.
—Ignatius Sancho, 1778Wherever commerce prevails there will be an inequality of wealth, and wherever the latter does a simplicity of manners must decline.
—James Madison, 1783If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.
—Congolese proverbThough this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603