I wants to make your flesh creep.
—Charles Dickens, 1837
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Hunting is all that’s worth living for—all time is lost what is not spent in hunting—it is like the air we breathe—if we have it not we die—it’s the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt.
—Robert Smith Surtees, 1843Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort in a hospital.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1857Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions, as it were, by the way, in the course of their everyday life.
—Elizabeth Charles, 1862Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1928When I do a show, the whole show revolves around me, and if I don’t show up, they can just forget it.
—Ethel Merman, c. 1955Drive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back.
—Horace, c. 25 BCEnvy is the basis of democracy.
—Bertrand Russell, 1930We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 1969There never was a good war or a bad peace.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1773