Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.
—Bian Qiao, c. 500 BC
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The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
—Heinrich Heine, 1827Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
—Patricia Highsmith, 1960When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957There was a great deal of drinking among us but little drunkenness. We all seemed to feel that Prohibition was a personal affront and that we had a moral duty to undermine it.
—Elizabeth Anderson, 1969If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.
—Martial, c. 86Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
—L. Frank Baum, 1899It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
—Upton Sinclair, 1935Friendship! Sir, there can be no such thing without an equality.
—George Farquhar, 1702He knows the water best who has waded through it.
—Danish proverbOur nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea. It is down there that the sea folk live.
—Hans Christian Andersen, 1837