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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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
—Marty Feldman, 1969Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.
—Jeremy Bentham, c. 1832Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbMore pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880Unexemplary words and unfounded doctrines are avoided by the noble person. Why utter them?
—Dong Zhongshu, c. 120 BCAn ape will be an ape, though clad in purple.
—Erasmus, 1511The young always have the same problem—how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their elders and copying one another.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968’Tis the sport to have the engineer / Hoist with his own petard.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600God never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.
—The Qur’an, c. 620Peace is a natural effect of trade.
—Montesquieu, 1748