Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
—William Saroyan, 1943
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You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.
—William Randolph Hearst, 1898I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
—Zsa Zsa GaborGood fortune turns aside destruction by a great god.
—Instructions of Ankhsheshonqy, c. 100 BCArt is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa, c. 1975Everyone complains about his memory, and no one complains about his judgment.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1666For, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
—Herman Melville, 1851Art imitates nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his master; thus it is a sort of grandchild of God.
—Dante, c. 1315Being thus arrived in good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stale earth, their proper element.
—William Bradford, 1630Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
—Sigmund Freud, 1930I have always found it in mine own experience an easier matter to devise many and profitable inventions than to dispose of one of them to the good of the author himself.
—Hugh Plat, 1595We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
—John Locke, 1690Travelers, poets, and liars are three words all of one significance.
—Richard Brathwaite, 1631