’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595
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Children and fools cannot lie.
—John Heywood, 1546Medication alone is not to be relied on. In one half the cases medicine is not needed, or is worse than useless. Obedience to spiritual and physical laws—hygiene of the body and hygiene of the spirit—is the surest warrant for health and happiness.
—Harriot K. Hunt, 1856I cannot live without books, but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1815Luck takes the step that no one sees.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCI have often said that if I wish to name-drop, I have only to list my ex-friends.
—Norman Podhoretz, 1999Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
—Laurie Colwin, 1978Once you hear the details of a victory it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1951It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.
—Joan Didion, 2005All people have the common desire to be elevated in honor, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
—Mencius, c. 330 BCAs man disappears from sight, the land remains.
—Maori proverbOpposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
—Sigmund Freud, 1930