I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
—Phyllis Diller, 1981
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I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830Dread attends the unknown.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1998Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is better, only the god knows.
—Socrates, 399 BCMan is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
—William Hazlitt, 1819Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell!
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1843The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
—Bertrand Russell, 1938Petty laws breed great crimes.
—Ouida, 1880The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
—John Locke, 1695Memory is necessary for all operations of reasoning.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1658Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
—J. Paul GettyThe human mind is an evolutionary product, just like the human body.
—Tetsuro Matsuzawa, 2010