In the name of Hippocrates doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983
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The gratitude is greater than the gift.
—Pierre Corneille, 1641It is noble to die before doing anything that deserves death.
—Anaxandrides, c. 376Misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.
—James Howell, 1659The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. I think that the worst thing you could say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever. After all, you know, there are worse things in life than death.
—Woody Allen, 1975Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water.
—Zadie Smith, 2000We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
—Frank Zappa, 1989As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
—Abraham Lincoln, c. 1858The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
—Italo Calvino, 1967Someone will remember us
I say
even in another time.
The men of today are born to criticize; of Achilles they see only the heel.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880