Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.
—Mary Baker Eddy, 1908
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We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea—whether it is to sail or to watch it—we are going back whence we came.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
—Aphra Behn, 1677The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.
—Francis Bacon, 1605The human working stock is of interest only insofar as it is profitable.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1970A college degree is a social certificate, not a proof of competence.
—Elbert Hubbard, 1911It 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, 1776I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588I quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BCWhat is the city but the people?
—William Shakespeare, 1608The sadness of the end of a career of an older athlete, with the betrayal of his body, is mirrored in the rest of us. Consciously or not, we know: there, soon, go I.
—Ira Berkow, 1987Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747We and the dead ride quick at night.
—Gottfried August Bürger, 1773