The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.
—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920
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Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.
—John Donne, c. 1629He who has nothing has no friends.
—Greek proverbWhat one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.
—Mark Twain, 1897Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.
—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841Inventor, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers, and springs and believes it civilization.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911’Tis the sport to have the engineer / Hoist with his own petard.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence, the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?
—Mary Renault, 1956When you drink water, think of its source.
—Chinese proverbThe tune I remember, could I but keep the words.
—Virgil, 38 BCMemory is like the moon, which hath its new, its full, and its wane.
—Margaret Cavendish, 1655